Explore Florence, 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 Florence, 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 Florence.
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 | Florence |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Switzerland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Vevay) |
| Latitude | 38.78423 |
| Longitude | -84.924393 |
| Population | 60 |
| Density | 171.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 47020 |
| Area Code | 317, 463 |
| County Seat | Vevay |
| School District | Switzerland County School Corporation |
Florence reveals itself through the narrow, meandering ribbon of Turtle Creek, which cuts a quiet path through the landscape before dissipating into the surrounding woodlot and farmland mosaic. It lies 8.6 miles east-southeast of Switzerland, IN (from Switzerland, IN: bearing 118°T), and is situated 1.2 miles west of Warsaw. Beyond the creek, the earth rises toward the prominence of Johnson Hill, where the air holds a lingering, heavy stillness that seems to suspend the very passage of the afternoon. The light here catches the limestone dust of the backroads, turning the gray gravel into a pale, shimmering path that leads toward the expanse of Egypt Bottom, five miles distant, where the basin gathers the shadows of the fading sun. Every leaf and blade of grass feels distinct in this inland quiet, far from the frantic pace of the world, where the horizon is defined not by distant summits, but by the steady, persistent growth of the timberline.
Florence maintains a deliberate, measured economy that looks to the land and the nearby leisure of the Belterra Golf Club for its enduring character. While the regional identity is anchored in the sturdy, brick-built pragmatism of the southern Hoosier landscape, the daily pulse of the people remains tethered to the seasonal shifts of the fields and the maintenance of their quiet, localized commerce. The distance to Lake Geneva, a mere eight miles away, offers a rare, singular destination for those seeking the stillness of water, yet the primary gravity of the area remains firmly rooted in the agricultural patterns established generations ago. Residents move through their days with a practiced, internal rhythm, acknowledging the weight of history in the architecture of their structures and the silent, unyielding presence of the woods that surround them.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Florence, Indiana. Coordinates: 38.78423, -84.924393. 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 Florence includes the ZIP code (47020), telephone area code (317, 463), county seat of Switzerland County (Vevay), and school district assignment (Switzerland County 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. |