Explore Tuscola, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Tuscola, 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 Tuscola.
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 | Tuscola |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Tuscola County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 43.326413 |
| Longitude | -83.657183 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 12.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 48768, 48769 |
| Area Code | 586 |
| County Seat | Caro |
Tuscola emerges from the flat, fertile expanse of the Michigan landscape as a quiet intersection of earth and water. It lies 14.9 miles north of Genesee, MI (from Genesee, MI: bearing 352°T), and is situated 4.1 miles east of Frankenmuth. The Cass River carves a deliberate, slow-moving path through the terrain, its dark, silty waters providing a constant rhythm against the stillness of the surrounding fields. Sunlight here possesses a particular quality, stretching long and thin across the horizon at dusk, illuminating the dust motes that hang suspended in the humid, inland air. The land itself is defined by the vast, open geometry of agriculture, where the horizon remains unobstructed, allowing the sky to dominate the view with a pale, expansive gray that shifts slowly toward indigo as the sun retreats behind the distant, silent tree lines.
Tuscola maintains a steady, measured pace, defined by the enduring labor of those who work the deep, black soil. The economic life of the region remains rooted in the cycles of harvest and growth, a quiet industry that keeps the pulse of the place synchronized with the changing seasons. Residents often find their leisure at the Timbers Golf Club, where the manicured fairways offer a sharp, green contrast to the wilder, brush-heavy banks of the nearby river. While the pace of modern life gathers speed elsewhere, Tuscola retains a sense of isolation that feels intentional, a place where the memory of earlier, agrarian decades lingers in the architecture of the older buildings and the patient, deliberate cadence of daily conversation. Those seeking the stillness of nature beyond the fields can travel a short distance to the quiet waters of Murphy Lake, a small, reflective basin that marks the edge of the local wilderness.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tuscola, Michigan. Coordinates: 43.326413, -83.657183. 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 Tuscola includes the ZIP code (48768, 48769), telephone area code (586), county seat of Tuscola County (Caro), and school district assignment.
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. |