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Owendale Michigan Map

Explore Owendale, 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 Owendale, Michigan

How to Use This Owendale, Michigan Map

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

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

Latitude	43.729183
Longitude	-83.268008
Population	275
Density	142.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	48754
Area Code	586
County Seat	Bad Axe
School District	Owendale-Gagetown Area Schools

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About Owendale, Michigan

Owendale is a locality in Huron County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 275. The population density is 142.9 people per km². Owendale is located at 43.7292°N, 83.2680°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. Owendale is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 48754.

Owendale emerges from the flat expanse of the Thumb, a quiet intersection of grid-lined roads where the horizon claims more sky than earth. It lies 32.4 miles east-northeast of Bay City, MI (from Bay City, MI: bearing 73°T), and is situated 17.7 miles north-northeast of Caro. The landscape surrounding Owendale is dominated by the heavy, dark soil of productive farmland, a vast prairie of agricultural industry that stretches toward the distant, unseen presence of Lake Huron, only eight miles to the east. A mile away, the Brookfield Township No. 1 State Game Area offers a quiet refuge of wilder grasses and brush, while the Shebeon Drain cuts a modest, purposeful path through the fields two miles out, carrying the slow runoff of the plains toward the broader drainage of the region. At dusk, the light catches the metallic silos and the wide, open sky, turning the gray, turned earth into a mirror for the fading sun, emphasizing the immense, uncrowded scale of the land.

Owendale maintains a deliberate, measured pace of life, rooted in the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that dictate the rhythms of the local economy. Established as a product of the late nineteenth-century rail expansion, the village still bears the architectural remnants of an era when the iron track served as the primary artery for timber and grain. The community persists as a place of steady labor, where the character of the inhabitants is shaped by the practical demands of the fields and the endurance required by the long, deep-freeze winters of the interior. There is a distinct honesty in the way the village holds itself, a composure found in the simple geometry of its streets and the quiet resolve of those who remain, tethered to the soil and the wide, indifferent beauty of the Midwestern plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Brookfield Township No. 1 State Game Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 125° SE
Brookfield Township No. 2 State Game Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 018° N
Village of Gagetown Park (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 165° S
Private Golf Course (Park) — 4.6 mi, 167° S
Ball Park (Local Park) — 5.0 mi, 172° S
Pigeon Historical Society (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 359° N
Sanilac Petroglyphs State Park (State Park) — 12.6 mi, 114° SE
Survivor Pine (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 112° E
Sleeper State Park (State Park) — 16.4 mi, 007° N
Forever Soaring (Public Artwork) — 16.9 mi, 094° E
Strand Theatre (Cinema) — 17.8 mi, 201° S
Boardwalk (Attraction) — 19.7 mi, 022° N
Overlook (Viewpoint) — 20.0 mi, 022° N
Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.2 mi, 333° NW · 1,668 acres
Thumb Area Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 25.9 mi, 031° NE
Arenac County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 30.4 mi, 316° NW
Vicki Keith (Monument) — 31.9 mi, 076° E
Bay City Cinemas (Cinema) — 31.9 mi, 258° W
Van Buren Street Theatre (Theatre) — 32.0 mi, 254° W
World Friendship Shell (Theatre) — 32.4 mi, 254° W
Veterans Park War Memorial (Monument) — 32.6 mi, 254° W
Vietnam Veterans Monument (Monument) — 32.7 mi, 254° W
Sanilac Shores Great Lakes State Underwater Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 34.2 mi, 102° E
Ultimate Mirror Maze (Theme Park) — 36.7 mi, 220° SW
Silent Night Chapel (Attraction) — 37.2 mi, 219° SW
Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 40.0 mi, 229° SW · 20k acres
Huron National Forest (National Forest) — 40.7 mi, 350° N · 436k acres
Wildlife Blind (Attraction) — 43.0 mi, 230° SW
AuSable-Oscoda Historical Museum (Museum) — 47.8 mi, 356° N
Hemlock Historical Museum (Museum) — 52.8 mi, 246° SW

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