Explore Dover Hill, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Dover Hill, 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 Dover Hill.
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 | Dover Hill |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Martin County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Vincennes) |
| Latitude | 38.72505 |
| Longitude | -86.802778 |
| Population | 96 |
| Density | 47.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 47581 |
| Area Code | 812 |
| County Seat | Shoals |
| School District | Shoals Community School Corporation |
Dover Hill occupies a quiet prominence above the winding, silt-heavy path of Dover Run, where the earth rises in subtle folds toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Hickory Ridge. It lies 18.4 miles east of Daviess, IN (from Daviess, IN: bearing 85°T), and is situated 6.9 miles east-northeast of Loogootee. The landscape is a mosaic of dense woodlots and stubborn, clay-rich farmland, defined by the persistent gravity of the terrain that pulls drainage down into the shadows of Opossum Hollow. Beneath the wide, pale expanse of the Midwestern sky, the air often holds a heavy, static stillness, as if the land itself is pausing to measure the slow passage of clouds moving toward the horizon. Three miles away, the dense, green reach of Martin County State Forest anchors the horizon, offering a sanctuary of timber and shadow that seems to press against the edges of the fields, while the nearby Martin State Forest serves as a quiet witness to the seasonal rotations of the soil.
History in Dover Hill is written not in monuments, but in the enduring, patient labor of those who clear the brush and attend to the fences that mark the limits of their stewardship. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, an inheritance of agriculture and small-scale silviculture that demands a hard-won endurance from its practitioners. Life here moves with the deliberate gait of a season, punctuated by the occasional excursion toward the distant, rushing water of Hindostan Falls or a quiet afternoon spent near the still, dark surface of Seed Tick Lake. There is a particular, unadorned dignity in the way the sunlight catches the dust on a gravel road at dusk, turning the grit into something momentarily precious, a fleeting grace that confirms the quiet persistence of Dover Hill amidst the vast, unchanging geometry of the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dover Hill, Indiana. Coordinates: 38.72505, -86.802778. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Dover Hill includes the ZIP code (47581), telephone area code (812), county seat of Martin County (Shoals), and school district assignment (Shoals Community School Corporation).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |