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North Star Michigan Map

Explore North Star, Michigan, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of North Star, Michigan

How to Use This North Star, Michigan Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for North Star, Michigan. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Michigan or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to North Star.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	North Star
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Gratiot County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	43.248363
Longitude	-84.54333
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	48862
Area Code	517
County Seat	Ithaca

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About North Star, Michigan

North Star is a locality in Gratiot County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². North Star is located at 43.2484°N, 84.5433°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP code: 48862.

North Star anchors a quiet expanse of flat, fertile earth where the horizon stretches wide under a vast, unencumbered sky. It lies 25.3 miles northwest of Owosso, MI (from Owosso, MI: bearing 313°T), and is situated 4.4 miles southeast of Ithaca. The Bad River winds through this landscape, carving a subtle, rhythmic path through the silt and soil that defines the local terrain. A stillness settles over the fields, broken only by the low whistle of wind moving across the plains or the seasonal shifting of light that turns the autumn stubble into a field of brushed copper. At the center of this terrain, the Township of North Star Park offers a singular point of repose, where the vegetation grows thick and undisturbed, standing in contrast to the orderly, geometric precision of the surrounding agricultural grids.

North Star retains a character forged by the steady, repetitive labor of the harvest and the patient cycle of the seasons. The local economy remains anchored to the land, drawing its vitality from the deep, dark soil that has supported generations of families who know the temperament of these fields by heart. While the distant silhouette of The Island rises fourteen miles away as a faint marker on the skyline, the residents look instead to the immediate, practical necessities of their trade and the quiet maintenance of their homesteads. Life here moves with the measured pace of a long-settled rural district, where the memory of early settlers lingers in the names of old barns and the layout of the primary crossroads, maintaining a sense of continuity that persists despite the changing currents of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Township of North Star Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 042° NE
Local Forest (Local Resource Management Area) — 0.6 mi, 154° SE
North Star Country Club (Park) — 1.8 mi, 214° SW
Forest Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 324° NW
Gratiot County Farm (Local Park) — 3.3 mi, 297° NW
Gratiot-Saginaw State Game Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 096° E
Gratiot Country Club (Park) — 4.9 mi, 326° NW
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 5.5 mi, 141° SE
Uncle John's Cider Mill (Attraction) — 9.4 mi, 186° S
Dr Drake Statue (Public Artwork) — 11.5 mi, 017° N
Tony's Chicken Statue (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 342° N
Rochester Colony Historical Marker (Monument) — 14.6 mi, 162° S
Clinton Northern Railway Museum (Museum) — 16.8 mi, 182° S
Paine-Gillam-Scott House (Monument) — 17.1 mi, 183° S
Clinton County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 17.1 mi, 183° S
Hemlock Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.6 mi, 053° NE
Sleepy Hollow State Park (State Park) — 21.0 mi, 163° S
Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.8 mi, 072° E · 20k acres
Lebowsky Center (Theatre) — 25.6 mi, 133° SE
NCG Owosso Cinemas (Cinema) — 25.8 mi, 132° SE
McGuirk Arena (Stadium) — 25.8 mi, 333° NW
Townsend Kiva (Theatre) — 26.1 mi, 334° NW
Greek Rock (Attraction) — 26.2 mi, 334° NW
Museum of Cultural and Natural History (Museum) — 26.4 mi, 335° NW
Rope Swing (Attraction) — 28.8 mi, 030° NE
Snake Creek Overlook (Viewpoint) — 29.8 mi, 029° NE
Bath School Museum (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 171° S
Manistee National Forest (National Forest) — 34.9 mi, 104° E · 539k acres
White Pine Trail State Park (State Park) — 48.8 mi, 274° W
White, Michigan Wild And Scenic River Study Area (Wild & Scenic River) — 67.4 mi, 288° W · 21k acres

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