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Burns City Indiana Map

Explore Burns City, Indiana, 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 Burns City, Indiana

How to Use This Burns City, Indiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Burns City, Indiana. 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 Indiana 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 Burns City.

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	Burns City
State	Indiana (IN)
County	Martin County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Vincennes)

Latitude	38.822549
Longitude	-86.886948
Population	114
Density	59.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	47553
Area Code	812
County Seat	Shoals
School District	Loogootee Community School Corporation

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About Burns City, Indiana

Burns City is a locality in Martin County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 114. The population density is 59.9 people per km². Burns City is located at 38.8225°N, 86.8869°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Vincennes) timezone. ZIP code: 47553.

Burns City occupies a quiet corner of the landscape where the horizon is defined by the steady, measured lift of the earth toward the prominence of Gobbler Knob. It lies 16.1 miles east-northeast of Daviess, IN (from Daviess, IN: bearing 59°T), and is situated 19.1 miles northeast of Washington. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp soil and the deep, pervasive stillness of inland woodlots that stretch across the surrounding acreage. Seed Tick Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path through the terrain, its waters reflecting the pale, flat light of an overcast Indiana afternoon. Not far away, the presence of Indiana Forest Bank - Shawnee Hills offers a dense, protective canopy of hardwoods, while the surface of Greenwood Lake remains undisturbed, a mirror for the shifting clouds that drift over the fields.

Burns City maintains a spare, deliberate pace, anchored by a history rooted in the hard work of the soil and the quiet persistence of those who cultivate it. Life in Burns City moves in alignment with the cycles of the nearby agricultural lands and the seasonal shifts that thin the trees in Goldsberry Hollow. The economy remains tethered to the land, an inheritance of labor that values the utility of a well-maintained fence or the reliability of a harvest. There is a distinct, unadorned beauty in the way the shadows grow long across the meadows at dusk, a reminder that this place exists in a realm defined not by the noise of the outside world, but by the grounded, enduring rhythm of the Midwest.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Indiana Forest Bank - Shawnee Hills (Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 327° NW
Daviess - Martin County Park (West Boggs) (Local Park) — 5.8 mi, 200° S
Martin State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 6.3 mi, 120° SE
Mt. Calvary (Martin Co.) Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 182° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 10.1 mi, 188° S
Bluffs of Beaver Bend (State Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 159° S
Jug Rock (Attraction) — 10.7 mi, 154° SE
Old Mans Nose (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 133° SE
Hoosier National Forest (National Forest) — 11.7 mi, 168° S · 204k acres
Houghntan Memorial bridge (Monument) — 12.1 mi, 180° S
Richland-Plummer Creek Covered Bridge (Attraction) — 12.1 mi, 347° N
Hindostan Falls Public Fishing Area (State Recreation Area) — 13.6 mi, 172° S
Gory Hole Cave Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 16.3 mi, 102° E · 20 acres
Tulip Viaduct (Viewpoint) — 17.7 mi, 006° N
Bluespring Caverns (Attraction) — 18.5 mi, 095° E
Soldier's Monument (Public Artwork) — 19.1 mi, 234° SW
Daviess County Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 234° SW
Big Joe Palooka (Monument) — 20.1 mi, 074° E
10 Commandments Tablets (Monument) — 20.4 mi, 087° E
FLWB Indoor Karting (Theme Park) — 23.4 mi, 141° SE
Indiana Railway Museum (Museum) — 23.5 mi, 142° SE
French Lick West Baden Museum (Museum) — 23.7 mi, 143° SE
Springs Stadium (Cinema) — 24.2 mi, 141° SE
Large quarry remnants (Historic Ruins) — 28.9 mi, 039° NE
Charles C. Deam Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 29.4 mi, 061° NE · 13k acres
Springs Valley State Fish and Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 29.5 mi, 142° SE
Astra Theatre (Theatre) — 29.9 mi, 185° S
Conrad Prebys Amphitheater (Theatre) — 30.9 mi, 040° NE
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.1 mi, 205° SW · 20k acres
Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.2 mi, 028° NE · 16k acres

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