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Summit Lake Wisconsin Map

Explore Summit Lake, 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 Summit Lake, Wisconsin

How to Use This Summit Lake, Wisconsin Map

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

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	Summit Lake
State	Wisconsin (WI)
County	Langlade County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	45.37774
Longitude	-89.194839
Population	141
Density	67.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	54485
Area Code	715
County Seat	Antigo
School District	Elcho School District

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About Summit Lake, Wisconsin

Summit Lake is a locality in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States. It is a small community with a population of 141. The population density is 67.9 people per km². Summit Lake is located at 45.3777°N, 89.1948°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 54485.

Summit Lake reflects the bruised purple of an oncoming northern twilight, its surface holding a stillness that seems to suspend the very air above the water. It lies 26.0 miles west-northwest of Langlade, WI (from Langlade, WI: bearing 300°T), and is situated 16.5 miles north of Antigo. Glacial debris and heavy timber define the landscape here, where the earth rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells that eventually climb toward the distant Harrison Hills. Dense stands of pine and hardwood bleed into the Langlade County Forest, which wraps the perimeter in a tangle of ferns and cedar swamps. Only two miles to the west, the Hunting River carves a narrow, dark path through the soil, its current carrying the cold, metallic scent of snowmelt even in the heat of midsummer. The light at this latitude is thin and clarifying, stripping the shadows from the pine needles and leaving the terrain feeling brittle, ancient, and profoundly solitary.

Timber and the quiet persistence of rural industry have long governed the cycles of Summit Lake, shaping a community defined by the sturdy, unadorned labor of the North Woods. Generations of families have worked the surrounding woods and fields, leaving a legacy etched into the timber-frame structures and the pragmatic, no-nonsense architecture that dots the local roads. Life here moves according to the turning of the seasons, shifting from the frantic pace of the short growing cycle to the long, muffled insulation of a deep winter. On Friday evenings, the local social currents pull toward the supper clubs, where the ritual of the fish fry serves as a communal anchor against the isolation of the surrounding wilderness. It is a place where the history of the land—a blend of frontier grit and the steady, quiet endurance of the immigrant families who settled these ridges—remains visible in the way the town maintains its boundaries against the encroaching forest.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Langlade County Forest (Local Conservation Area) — 0.2 mi, 214° SW
Upper Wolf River Fishery Area (State Recreation Area) — 2.5 mi, 062° NE
Bogus Swamp State Natural Area (Nature Reserve) — 3.2 mi, 193° S
County Forest Land (Local Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 354° N
Statewide Spring Ponds (State Conservation Area) — 4.3 mi, 351° N
Statewide Spring Ponds - Nw (State Recreation Area) — 4.3 mi, 351° N
State Owned Islands (State Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 004° N
State Owned Islands - Nw (State Resource Management Area) — 4.4 mi, 004° N
Remembrance Area (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 095° E
M60a3 (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 172° S
Antigo Visual Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 16.7 mi, 173° S
Wolf River State Trail (State Park) — 17.4 mi, 060° NE
Ice Age Trail - Nw (State Park) — 17.7 mi, 264° W
Nicolet National Forest (National Forest) — 19.3 mi, 022° N · 663k acres
The Listening Place (Viewpoint) — 19.3 mi, 296° NW
Nicolet College Art Gallery (Gallery) — 19.4 mi, 325° NW
Little Rice Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 19.7 mi, 032° NE
Art Start (Gallery) — 20.8 mi, 330° NW
Chamber of Commerce Hodag (Public Artwork) — 20.8 mi, 328° NW
Hext Theater (Theatre) — 20.8 mi, 330° NW
FCP Cultural Center, Library & Museum (Museum) — 21.6 mi, 052° NE
Northern Highland (Monument) — 21.8 mi, 053° NE
De Langlade (Monument) — 25.9 mi, 120° SE
Tomahawk Cinema (Cinema) — 26.7 mi, 284° W
Warren Mill - Now WPS (Historic Ruins) — 27.6 mi, 240° SW
Headwaters Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 28.8 mi, 016° N · 22k acres
Three Lakes Historical Society (Museum) — 28.9 mi, 002° N
Three Lakes Center for the Arts (Theatre) — 29.1 mi, 003° N
Wausau School District Planetarium (Museum) — 35.7 mi, 219° SW
Chequamegon National Forest (National Forest) — 45.0 mi, 294° NW · 863k acres

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