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Whittaker Michigan Map

Explore Whittaker, 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 Whittaker, Michigan

How to Use This Whittaker, Michigan Map

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

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	Whittaker
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Washtenaw County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	42.128097
Longitude	-83.599659
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	48191, 48190
Area Code	313
County Seat	Ann Arbor

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About Whittaker, Michigan

Whittaker is a locality in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Whittaker is located at 42.1281°N, 83.5997°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP codes: 48191, 48190.

Whittaker asserts itself as a quiet intersection of rural horizon and flat, productive soil, where the sky claims more territory than the land itself. It lies 7.8 miles south of Ypsilanti, MI (from Ypsilanti, MI: bearing 175°T), and is situated 8.8 miles southwest of Van Buren Township. The landscape remains defined by the persistent, unhurried flow of Stony Creek, which marks the low points of the terrain with a silver ribbon of moisture before meandering toward the distance. While the Sharon Short Hills exist as a faint, jagged suggestion on the far horizon, the immediate ground prefers the company of wide, cultivated fields that catch the pale, slanted light of late afternoon. A few miles away, the quiet reach of Hewen'S Creek Park offers a preserved silence, where the flora thickens and the earth holds onto the damp memory of the seasons.

Whittaker holds the lingering echoes of a rail-based past, having once served as a vital point for the movement of grain and goods that fueled the regional economy. Today, the pace of life maintains a deliberate, agrarian gravity, tethered to the rhythms of the harvest rather than the frantic pulse of the nearby manufacturing centers. Residents look toward Ford Lake for a brief respite from the summer heat, though the true character of the place is found in the way the local roads cut straight lines through the deep, loamy dark of the fields. The history of the locality remains tucked into the architecture of its older structures, standing as a plain, functional record of those who cleared the brush and broke the heavy soil to build a life in this inland expanse.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hewen'S Creek Park (Local Recreation) — 3.3 mi, 337° NW
Sanford Road Park (Local Park) — 3.5 mi, 224° SW
Searles Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 3.6 mi, 308° NW
Rolling Hills County Park (Local Park) — 3.8 mi, 323° NW
Rolling Hills (Park) — 4.4 mi, 293° NW
Detroit-Greenfield KOA (Private Recreation) — 4.6 mi, 018° N
Pirate Ship (Attraction) — 5.0 mi, 330° NW
Pine View Golf Course (Park) — 5.3 mi, 348° N
Milan War Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 5.3 mi, 234° SW
Draper-Houston Meadows Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 240° SW
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 352° N
Unknown Park (State Conservation Area) — 6.1 mi, 028° NE
North Bay Park (Local Recreation) — 6.2 mi, 357° N
Old Rawsonville Village Historical Marker (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 026° NE
Tipsy Ypsi (Arts Centre) — 7.8 mi, 354° N
Harriet Tubman (Public Artwork) — 7.8 mi, 354° N
22 North (Gallery) — 7.9 mi, 355° N
Nelson Amos Studio (Gallery) — 8.2 mi, 356° N
The Depot (Gallery) — 8.2 mi, 356° N
Braun (State Conservation Area) — 8.4 mi, 288° W
Decode Detroit (Theatre) — 9.0 mi, 333° NW
Whitepine Studios LLC (Arts Centre) — 9.7 mi, 286° W
Jewel Heart (Attraction) — 10.6 mi, 312° NW
Bear Statue (Attraction) — 11.9 mi, 199° S
Deborah Gimbel Memorial Overlook (Viewpoint) — 12.1 mi, 328° NW
Southeast Tower (Attraction) — 12.1 mi, 321° NW
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 12.3 mi, 331° NW
Romulus Historical Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 058° NE
University of Michigan Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 12.5 mi, 327° NW
Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.1 mi, 146° SE · 13k acres

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