Pearl Beach Michigan Map
Explore Pearl Beach, 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 Pearl Beach, Michigan
How to Use This Pearl Beach, Michigan Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pearl Beach, 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 Pearl Beach.
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 | Pearl Beach |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Branch County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 42.631576 |
| Longitude | -82.586437 |
| Population | 4,698 |
| Density | 377.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 49036, 48001 |
| Area Code | 269, 313 |
| County Seat | Coldwater |
| School District | Algonac Community School District |
About Pearl Beach, Michigan
Pearl Beach is a locality in Branch County, Michigan, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,698. The population density is 377.5 people per km². Pearl Beach is located at 42.6316°N, 82.5864°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP codes: 49036, 48001.Pearl Beach occupies a quiet expanse of the Michigan interior where the land levels into a mosaic of wetlands and dense, deciduous timber. It lies 8.1 miles south of Coldwater, MI (from Coldwater, MI: bearing 175°T), and is situated 7.0 miles north-northwest of Fremont. The character of Pearl Beach is defined by the immediate presence of Coldwater Lake, which holds the morning light in a flat, silver stillness before the wind begins to stir the reeds. A mile away, the Coldwater River moves with a slow, deliberate gravity, cutting through the heavy soil of the plains as it carries the runoff of the seasons toward the deeper basins of the region. On the far horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of Walnut Ridge offers a reminder of the tectonic ancientness that shaped these basins, though here the terrain remains humble, defined by the slow accretion of sediment and the persistent, quiet growth of the hardwoods.
Economic life in Pearl Beach has long followed the rhythm of the soil and the seasonal shifts of the inland climate, favoring a steady, modest pace over the frantic pulse of the manufacturing hubs to the east. The local landscape is marked by the manicured greens of Iyopawa Island Golf Course, which serves as a deliberate counterpoint to the wilder, unmanaged thickets that border the riverbanks. History here is kept in the weathered siding of barns and the slow, generational knowledge of the water table, rather than in monuments of stone or steel. Pearl Beach remains a place where the air carries the scent of damp earth and cooling timber, a landscape that asks little of the traveler other than a willingness to acknowledge the quiet, persistent work of the seasons.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- St. Johns Marsh State Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.4 mi, 294° NW
- St. Clair Flats State Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.9 mi, 198° S
- Middle Channel Country Club (Park) — 1.5 mi, 184° S
- Harsens Island Hunt Club (Park) — 1.7 mi, 155° SE
- Boat Launch (State Recreation Area) — 2.2 mi, 123° SE
- Algonac State Park (State Park) — 2.4 mi, 064° NE
- Water Tower Park (Local Park) — 2.7 mi, 111° E
- Algonac City Park (Local Park) — 2.9 mi, 113° SE
- Oasis Tiki Shelter (Attraction) — 2.9 mi, 233° SW
- Algonac Boat Anchor (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 113° SE
- Algonac Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 3.0 mi, 106° E
- Lions Field (State Recreation Area) — 3.2 mi, 159° S
- Tecumseh Monument (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 117° SE
- King Road Park (Local Recreation) — 6.8 mi, 033° NE
- The Mariner LLC (Gallery) — 7.5 mi, 039° NE
- The Snug Theatre (Theatre) — 7.7 mi, 039° NE
- Gull Island Sandbar (Attraction) — 8.5 mi, 214° SW
- Brandenburg Park (State Park) — 9.0 mi, 286° W
- NIKE-AJAX Missile (Attraction) — 12.4 mi, 269° W
- NIKE Hercules Missile (Attraction) — 12.4 mi, 269° W
- John R. Armstrong Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 13.8 mi, 267° W
- Gratiot Valley Railroad Club (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 264° W
- MJR Partridge Creek Digital Cinema 14 (Cinema) — 18.3 mi, 269° W
- The Baumgartner House Museum And Fraser Depot Visitor Center (Museum) — 18.8 mi, 249° W
- Grindstone (Public Artwork) — 19.5 mi, 255° W
- Sled Museum (Museum) — 20.0 mi, 017° N
- Cook Schoolhouse (Museum) — 21.4 mi, 230° SW
- Alger Theater (Cinema) — 23.8 mi, 229° SW
- Burgess Overlook (Viewpoint) — 24.5 mi, 273° W
- Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.9 mi, 226° SW · 13k acres
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About This Pearl Beach Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pearl Beach, Michigan. Coordinates: 42.631576, -82.586437. 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 Pearl Beach includes the ZIP code (49036, 48001), telephone area code (269, 313), county seat of Branch County (Coldwater), and school district assignment (Algonac Community School District).
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. |
