Maple City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Leelanau County, in the U.S. state of Michigan.

The community is located within Kasson Township, and lies about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Traverse City.

As an unincorporated community, Maple City holds no legal autonomy of its own, and relies on governance from Kasson Township.

Maple City had its beginnings in 1866 when William Parks and J. T. Sturtevant built a shoe peg factory on land containing several hundred acres of maple timber, and the community that grew up around it was at first known as "Peg Town."

William H. Crowell, who had purchased the shoe peg factory in that year, was the first postmaster.