Oil City Michigan Map
Explore Oil City, 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 Oil City, Michigan
How to Use This Oil City, Michigan Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Oil City, 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 Oil City.
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 | Oil City |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Midland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 43.610862 |
| Longitude | -84.588341 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 5.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 48883, 49649 |
| Area Code | 517, 989 |
| County Seat | Midland |
About Oil City, Michigan
Oil City is a locality in Midland County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Oil City is located at 43.6109°N, 84.5883°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP codes: 48883, 49649.Oil City emerges from the flat, industrious plains of Michigan where the Chippewa River carves a deliberate path through the earth. It lies 9.0 miles east of Mount Pleasant, MI (from Mount Pleasant, MI: bearing 84°T), and is situated 17.1 miles west of Midland. The landscape around Oil City remains defined by this steady current, which pulls the eye across open fields toward the quiet, reflective waters of Camelot Lake just two miles to the west. Broad horizons dominate the view, interrupted only by the skeletal geometry of pump jacks and the dense, dark thickets of the State Forest, a SCA that sits barely a mile from the center of activity. At dusk, the light here turns a bruised, metallic violet, catching the edges of the river’s slow-moving surface and softening the rigid lines of the surrounding farmland.
Oil City carries the heavy, singular identity of a place built on the promise of what lay beneath the soil. The local economy persists as a quiet echoes of the extraction booms that once defined the region, moving at a pace dictated by the seasons and the maintenance of older, enduring infrastructure. While the Tittabawassee River State Forest lies thirteen miles away as a reminder of the vast, unmanaged woodland that blankets much of the interior, Oil City remains a place of cleared ground and practical labor. Residents navigate a daily rhythm shaped by this history, finding a peculiar, stark beauty in the way the industry of the past has settled into the quiet, everyday landscape of the present.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 310° NW
- Township of Greendale Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 116° SE
- Local Forest (Local Resource Management Area) — 2.3 mi, 105° E
- Forest Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 090° E
- Township of Chippewa Park (Local Park) — 3.2 mi, 248° W
- Dragonfly (Public Artwork) — 7.1 mi, 266° W
- Winding Brook Golf Course (Park) — 7.5 mi, 217° SW
- Deerless Acres Club (Park) — 7.5 mi, 143° SE
- Mid-Michigan Bowman (Private Recreation) — 8.0 mi, 091° E
- World War I Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 267° W
- World War II Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 267° W
- Museum of Cultural and Natural History (Museum) — 9.2 mi, 262° W
- Townsend Kiva (Theatre) — 9.4 mi, 260° W
- Bush Theater (Theatre) — 9.4 mi, 260° W
- Greek Rock (Attraction) — 9.4 mi, 261° W
- McGuirk Arena (Stadium) — 9.5 mi, 258° W
- Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 269° W
- Chippewa Nature Center (Local Conservation Area) — 13.9 mi, 094° E
- Tony's Chicken Statue (Attraction) — 14.1 mi, 186° S
- Rope Swing (Attraction) — 16.5 mi, 090° E
- Snake Creek Overlook (Viewpoint) — 16.7 mi, 086° E
- Clare Depot (Museum) — 17.0 mi, 328° NW
- Wooden Jump (Attraction) — 17.4 mi, 075° E
- Clare County Historical Society and Museum (Museum) — 20.7 mi, 337° NW
- Farwell Historical Museum (Museum) — 20.9 mi, 318° NW
- Hemlock Historical Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 127° SE
- Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.2 mi, 115° SE · 20k acres
- Weting Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 31.9 mi, 321° NW
- Manistee National Forest (National Forest) — 49.2 mi, 133° SE · 539k acres
- Huron National Forest (National Forest) — 62.2 mi, 000° N · 436k acres
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About This Oil City Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oil City, Michigan. Coordinates: 43.610862, -84.588341. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Oil City includes the ZIP code (48883, 49649), telephone area code (517, 989), county seat of Midland County (Midland), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
