Pompeii Michigan Map

About Pompeii, Michigan

Pompeii 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. Pompeii is located at 43.1839°N, 84.6008°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP code: 48874.

Pompeii unfolds across a landscape shaped by the gentle, sweeping curves of Gratiot County, where the land itself seems to breathe with the patient cadence of seasons. It lies 31.3 miles north of Lansing, MI (from Lansing, MI: bearing 356°T), and is situated 7.5 miles south of Ithaca. Here, the horizon is a soft, unbroken line, often softened by the hazy embrace of a Michigan afternoon, where fields of corn and soybeans stretch like emerald and gold carpets under a vast, ever-shifting sky. The air, particularly in the hushed moments of early morning or late twilight, carries the clean, earthy scent of fertile soil, a subtle perfume woven from the very essence of agriculture. Small farmsteads, their weathered barns standing sentinel against the wide-open spaces, dot the terrain, each a quiet testament to generations of tending the land. The roads, mostly gravel and asphalt ribbons, wind through this gentle topography, connecting scattered homes and the modest heart of Pompeii with an unhurried grace. The story of Pompeii is deeply rooted in the fertile soil it inhabits, a place where the local economy has long been steered by the bounty of the earth. Agriculture, with its predictable cycles of planting and harvest, continues to be the lifeblood of this community, the fields providing sustenance and livelihood. Echoes of earlier industries might linger in the quiet hum of machinery or the occasional repurposed building, but the enduring character of Pompeii remains tied to its agrarian heritage. It is a place where the rhythm of daily life is set not by the frantic pulse of a metropolis, but by the slower, more deliberate unfolding of the agricultural year, a quiet constancy that has shaped the very identity of Pompeii.

About This Pompeii Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pompeii, Michigan — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 43.18392, -84.600829. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Pompeii and Gratiot County.

Detailed location data for Pompeii includes the ZIP code (48874), telephone area code (517), county seat of Gratiot County (Ithaca), and school district assignment. These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Pompeii is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.