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Poynette Wisconsin Map

Explore Poynette, Wisconsin, 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 Poynette, Wisconsin

How to Use This Poynette, Wisconsin Map

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

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	Poynette
State	Wisconsin (WI)
County	Columbia County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	43.390264
Longitude	-89.402896
Population	2,590
Density	389.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	53955
Area Code	920
County Seat	Portage
School District	Poynette School District

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About Poynette, Wisconsin

Poynette is a locality in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,590. The population density is 389.4 people per km². Poynette is located at 43.3903°N, 89.4029°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Poynette is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 53955.

Poynette emerges from the landscape as a quiet intersection of prairie and woodland, defined by the persistent, cold-blooded course of Rowan Creek as it carves through the local terrain. It lies 10.3 miles north-northwest of DeForest, WI (from DeForest, WI: bearing 343°T), and is situated 8.8 miles east of Lake Wisconsin. The water moves with a deliberate, low-slung energy, shaping the banks that define the Rowan Creek Fishery Area where the wild grasses bow under the weight of the morning dew. Beyond the immediate riparian brush, the land stretches out into a wide, open expanse of farm fields and low, unassuming ridges that roll toward the horizon. The air here carries a crisp, terrestrial weight, devoid of any maritime salt, smelling instead of drying corn stalks and the damp, dark earth that characterizes this inland stretch of the continent. At dusk, the light turns a bruised, heavy gold, catching the surface of the water and illuminating the silence that settles over the fields long before the shadows of Townhall Hill grow deep.

Poynette retains the steady, unadorned character of a settlement built upon the rhythms of agriculture and the cautious stewardship of its natural resources. The local economy remains tethered to the soil and the modest commerce of a working village, where the daily pace is dictated not by the clock, but by the turning of the seasons and the demands of the harvest. Families who have occupied these plots for generations navigate a life that favors the practical over the ornamental, maintaining a cultural lineage that leans toward the stoic and the neighborly. While Mud Lake waits four miles distant, reflecting the vast, uninterrupted sky in its shallow basin, the people here look toward their own immediate borders with a sense of quiet permanence. It is a place where the history is written in the fence lines and the weathered siding of barns, a geography that asks little of the traveler other than to notice the way the wind moves across the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Rowan Creek Fishery Area (State Recreation Area) — 0.1 mi, 181° S
John Muir View (Monument) — 0.8 mi, 153° SE
Poynette Game Farm (State Recreation Area) — 0.9 mi, 066° NE
Columbia County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 1.9 mi, 360° N
Wildlife Exhibit (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 2.3 mi, 070° E
Columbia County Park (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 267° W
Scattered Wildlife (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 303° NW
Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 021° N
Dane County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 7.0 mi, 188° S
Ice Age Trail - Sd (State Park) — 9.7 mi, 223° SW
Pink Elephant (Public Artwork) — 9.8 mi, 173° S
Baraboo Hills Recreation Area (State Park) — 10.2 mi, 288° W
Gibraltar Rock (Attraction) — 10.4 mi, 252° W
Richmond Memorial Park of The Rocks of Gibraltar (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 252° W
DeForest Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 10.8 mi, 160° S
Pierre Pauquette Ferry Marker (Monument) — 10.8 mi, 341° N
Zona Gable Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 10.8 mi, 345° N
Art History Musseum (Gallery) — 11.4 mi, 027° NE
Small Auditorium (Theatre) — 14.5 mi, 191° S
Performing Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 14.6 mi, 191° S
Rock Crusher Foundation (Historic Ruins) — 15.4 mi, 275° W
Devil's Doorway (Attraction) — 16.0 mi, 276° W
Bird Man Mound (Historic Ruins) — 16.2 mi, 275° W
Balanced Rock (Attraction) — 16.3 mi, 276° W
Elephant Rock (Attraction) — 16.4 mi, 279° W
Vista Gallery (Gallery) — 17.5 mi, 288° W
Schwalbach Gallery (Gallery) — 19.1 mi, 290° W
Fox River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.5 mi, 001° N · 1,996 acres
Horicon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.1 mi, 075° E · 44k acres

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