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Onsted Michigan Map

Explore Onsted, 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 Onsted, Michigan

How to Use This Onsted, Michigan Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Onsted, 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 Onsted.

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	Onsted
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Lenawee County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	42.006155
Longitude	-84.189944
Population	988
Density	357.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	49265
Area Code	269
County Seat	Adrian
School District	Onsted Community Schools

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About Onsted, Michigan

Onsted is a locality in Lenawee County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 988. The population density is 357.5 people per km². Onsted is located at 42.0062°N, 84.1899°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. Onsted is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 49265.

Onsted wears the changing seasons like a heavy wool coat, its landscape defined by the quiet persistence of glacial drift and the slow, rhythmic labor of the earth. It lies 10.9 miles northwest of Adrian, MI (from Adrian, MI: bearing 314°T), and is situated 4.5 miles southwest of Irish Hills. The terrain here rises and falls in long, soft swells of loam and clay, giving way to the gentle, shadowed elevations of the Irish Hills six miles to the west. Near the center of these fields, Squaw Creek cuts a narrow, winding path through the brush, its waters moving with a deliberate, muddy patience that keeps the surrounding soil dark and ready for the plow. A mile or two away, the mirror-glass surface of Miller Pond catches the pale, slanted light of an autumn afternoon, holding the reflection of high, thin clouds in a stillness that seems to suspend the very air between the trees.

Onsted grew from the iron rail lines and the steady ambition of families who saw potential in the deep, fertile earth and the dense stands of hardwood that once blanketed the region. Life here remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the small-scale commerce of a place where neighbors recognize the sound of each other’s engines on the blacktop. The local character is colored by the legacy of early settlers who cleared the brush to build a life on the high ground, a spirit that still lingers in the quietude of Frances Broehl Mem. No.1, where the land is left to its own slow growth. The economy persists in the steady work of agriculture and the maintenance of a rural pace that resists the frantic pull of the wider world, favoring instead the deep, unhurried satisfaction of a day spent working the land under a vast, open sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Frances Broehl Mem. No.1 (Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 357° N
Onsted State Game Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 311° NW
Hidden Lake Gardens (State Conservation Area) — 3.9 mi, 058° NE
Hayes State Park (State Park) — 4.1 mi, 032° NE
Devils Lake Golf Course (Park) — 4.4 mi, 273° W
Camp O' the Hills (Private Recreation) — 4.7 mi, 006° N
Camp De Sales (Local Recreation) — 4.8 mi, 348° N
W. J. Hayes State Park (State Park) — 5.4 mi, 033° NE
Greenbriar Golf Course (Park) — 5.8 mi, 026° NE
Boutique Art Gallery (Gallery) — 6.6 mi, 249° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 7.5 mi, 337° NW
Woodstock Manual Labor Institute (Monument) — 8.0 mi, 269° W
Dawson Auditorium (Theatre) — 10.0 mi, 139° SE
Lenawee County Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.9 mi, 134° SE
Historical monuments, war veterans (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 132° SE
Civil War Memorial (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 132° SE
Lake Hudson Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 11.5 mi, 192° S
Fitz Overshot Waterwheel (Attraction) — 13.1 mi, 090° E
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mi (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.3 mi, 185° S · 192 acres
Hudson Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 219° SW
Terry Fire Bowl (Theatre) — 13.8 mi, 347° N
Fen Overlook (Viewpoint) — 16.4 mi, 313° NW
Wallsocket Horseshoe (Public Artwork) — 17.9 mi, 049° NE
Hurst Planetarium (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 321° NW
Ella Sharp Museum (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 321° NW
Tripp's Mill (Historic Ruins) — 19.3 mi, 239° SW
Sky Miles (Attraction) — 23.0 mi, 010° N
The Upside Down (Attraction) — 23.1 mi, 010° N
Natural Selection (Attraction) — 23.4 mi, 011° N
Whitepine Studios LLC (Arts Centre) — 23.7 mi, 062° NE

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