Explore White Pine, 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 White Pine, 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 White Pine.
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 | White Pine |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Ontonagon County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 46.740122 |
| Longitude | -89.58126 |
| Population | 339 |
| Density | 26.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 49971 |
| Area Code | 906 |
| County Seat | Ontonagon |
| School District | Ontonagon Area Schools |
White Pine occupies a rugged expanse of the Upper Peninsula, where the Mineral River carves a deliberate, winding path through the dense, shadowed timberland. It lies 104.8 miles west of Marquette, MI (from Marquette, MI: bearing 279°T), and is situated 34.7 miles northeast of Ironwood. The surrounding terrain rises in uneven, forested swells, gaining elevation toward the distant, solitary silhouette of Government Peak. Only five miles to the north, the vast, cold expanse of Lake Superior exerts a cooling influence on the air, keeping the spring mornings sharp and the autumn evenings brittle. Here, the earth feels heavy and ancient, muffled by the deep, persistent growth of the Ottawa National Forest that presses against the edges of the settlement, grounding the landscape in a stillness that predates human arrival.
Copper once defined the ambition of White Pine, drawing men into the dark, subterranean veins of the earth to extract the wealth that fueled the region’s early industrial pulse. While the roar of the mines has long since faded into a quiet, enduring memory, the character of the site remains tethered to that era of extraction and hard-won resilience. Today, White Pine exists in a state of deliberate endurance, where the pace of life mimics the slow, steady movement of the nearby river. The shadows cast by the dense pines grow long and violet as the sun dips behind the western ridges, signaling a daily return to a solitude that is as much a part of the local economy as the timber and the quiet, persistent work of those who choose to remain.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of White Pine, Michigan. Coordinates: 46.740122, -89.58126. 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 White Pine includes the ZIP code (49971), telephone area code (906), county seat of Ontonagon County (Ontonagon), and school district assignment (Ontonagon Area Schools).
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. |