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Rives Junction Michigan Map

Explore Rives Junction, 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 Rives Junction, Michigan

How to Use This Rives Junction, Michigan Map

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

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	Rives Junction
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Jackson County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	42.38587
Longitude	-84.461633
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	49277
Area Code	269
County Seat	Jackson

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About Rives Junction, Michigan

Rives Junction is a locality in Jackson County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Rives Junction is located at 42.3859°N, 84.4616°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP code: 49277.

Rives Junction emerges from the flat, industrious sprawl of the Michigan interior, defined by the steady, unhurried pulse of Albrow Creek as it carves a path through the dense, loamy soil. It lies 10.2 miles north-northwest of Jackson, MI (from Jackson, MI: bearing 342°T), and is situated 6.5 miles southeast of Onondaga. The land here stretches out in broad, uncomplicated swaths of farmland and woodlot, where the horizon remains wide and open, occasionally broken by the distant, hazy suggestion of the Blue Ridge on the far periphery. Just a mile away, the quiet waters of Fox Lake mirror the shifting slate-gray skies, providing a singular, still point in a landscape otherwise defined by the movement of wind across cornfields and the rhythmic clatter of trains passing through the junction. The light at dusk here possesses a particular clarity, turning the fields into a deep, bruised gold that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has slipped beneath the western tree line.

Rives Junction maintains an economy tethered to the iron and earth, a legacy of the rail lines that once anchored its founding and dictated the flow of commerce through these rural corridors. Life here moves in accordance with the seasonal cycles of the plow and the harvest, with the Washburn Street Baseball Diamond serving as a modest, grass-stained center for local gatherings during the warmth of the summer months. The character of the place is built upon a quiet endurance, where the heavy, fertile soil demands a certain tenacity from those who work it. There is an honest, utilitarian beauty in the way the architecture of the grain elevators and the weathering barns stands against the wide sky, marking the passage of time without the need for fanfare or artifice.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Washburn Street Baseball Diamond (Local Park) — 4.3 mi, 021° N
Meridian-Baseline State Park (State Park) — 5.1 mi, 061° NE
South Marker (Monument) — 5.5 mi, 063° NE
North Marker (Monument) — 5.6 mi, 062° NE
Rod Mills Park (Local Park) — 6.1 mi, 175° S
Hankerd Hills Golf Course (Park) — 6.2 mi, 087° E
MNRTF Parcel 28 (State Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 121° SE
Justin James Ward Memorial (Monument) — 7.8 mi, 033° NE
Sparrow Hawk Golf Course (Park) — 8.1 mi, 148° SE
Boat Launch (Local Recreation) — 8.9 mi, 317° NW
Defense of the Flag (Public Artwork) — 9.9 mi, 166° S
Waterloo Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 10.1 mi, 123° SE
Dansville State Game Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.5 mi, 028° NE
Cascades Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 11.0 mi, 175° S
Hurst Planetarium (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 169° S
Ella Sharp Museum (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 169° S
Miller Farm Eaton Rapids Area Historcal Society (Museum) — 12.6 mi, 313° NW
Mid Michigan Scout Museum (Museum) — 12.7 mi, 313° NW
Fen Overlook (Viewpoint) — 15.2 mi, 172° S
Terry Fire Bowl (Theatre) — 16.8 mi, 140° SE
Karyns Dance Studio (Arts Centre) — 17.9 mi, 350° N
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 18.0 mi, 351° N
The Upside Down (Attraction) — 18.3 mi, 101° E
Big Rock Candy Mountain (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 100° E
Sky Miles (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 101° E
Natural Selection (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 100° E
Pinckney Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 19.3 mi, 090° E
Michigan Women's Historical Center & Hall of Fame (Museum) — 23.6 mi, 005° N
Kresge Foundation Art Gallery (Gallery) — 23.9 mi, 280° W
Manistee National Forest (National Forest) — 57.3 mi, 032° NE · 539k acres

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