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Gaston Indiana Map

Explore Gaston, 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 Gaston, Indiana

How to Use This Gaston, Indiana Map

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

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	Gaston
State	Indiana (IN)
County	Delaware County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)

Latitude	40.313931
Longitude	-85.500528
Population	796
Density	844.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	47342
Area Code	317
County Seat	Muncie
School District	Wes-Del Community Schools

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About Gaston, Indiana

Gaston is a locality in Delaware County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 796. The population density is 844.3 people per km². Gaston is located at 40.3139°N, 85.5005°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. Gaston is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 47342.

Gaston rises from the flat, fertile expanse of the Indiana plains where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered by the distant, hazy silhouette of The Hogback. It lies 9.7 miles north of Yorktown, IN (from Yorktown, IN: bearing 358°T), and is situated 9.9 miles east-northeast of Alexandria. Pipe Creek carves a deliberate, quiet path through the surrounding fields, its waters reflecting the pale, shifting light of an expansive Midwestern sky. Gaston Town park provides a modest anchor for the local landscape, offering a patch of green where the earth feels firm and grounded underfoot. Three miles away, the surface of Emerald Lake catches the afternoon sun, a still, silver mirror in a region defined by its deep, dark soil and the rhythmic cycles of the harvest.

Agriculture remains the steady pulse of Gaston, dictating the tempo of the seasons as tractors move slowly across the mosaic of woodlots and open cropland. The brick architecture of the older buildings recalls a time when the rails and local commerce first defined the settlement’s reach, grounding the economy in the labor of the land. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the rural Midwest, where the evening air carries the scent of turned earth and the quiet persistence of a place that knows its own boundaries. Residents recognize the value of this stillness, finding a particular beauty in the way the shadows lengthen over the fields at dusk, marking the end of another day in a landscape that demands, and receives, a quiet sort of devotion.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Gaston Town park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 056° NE
Ginn Woods (State Resource Management Area) — 3.7 mi, 058° NE
Muncie Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 6.5 mi, 164° S
Muncie Elks Country Club (Park) — 7.5 mi, 175° S
Lakeview Country Club (Park) — 7.6 mi, 067° NE
Yorktown Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 8.4 mi, 179° S
Frog Baby Statue (Public Artwork) — 9.1 mi, 147° SE
Muncie Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 159° S
David Owsley Museum of Art (Museum) — 9.2 mi, 149° SE
Sursa Performance Hall (Theatre) — 9.3 mi, 148° SE
Abandoned Graduate Student Research Cabin (Historic Ruins) — 9.4 mi, 160° S
Ball Brothers Pillars (Monument) — 9.5 mi, 142° SE
Minnetrista Cultural Center (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 142° SE
Whipple Azalea Garden (Monument) — 9.7 mi, 001° N
Brad's Bridge (Monument) — 9.7 mi, 001° N
McCulloch Park (Local Park) — 9.8 mi, 138° SE
Mitchell Theatre (Theatre) — 9.9 mi, 001° N
Wysor Building Arch (Historic Ruins) — 10.3 mi, 144° SE
Worlds Largest Ball Of Paint (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 251° W
Southside turkey lives here. (Nature Reserve) — 12.3 mi, 149° SE
M3 Stuart (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 334° NW
Gas City Museum (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 333° NW
Site 5 (Attraction) — 13.6 mi, 136° SE
Site 6 (Attraction) — 13.7 mi, 135° SE
Mounds State Park (State Park) — 15.4 mi, 203° SW
Randolph Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.8 mi, 096° E
Fall Creek Woods (Nature Reserve) — 20.6 mi, 188° S
Summit Lake State Park (State Park) — 21.6 mi, 154° SE
Salamonie Reservoir (State Recreation Area) — 28.1 mi, 000° N
Zimmer Ross (Gallery) — 28.6 mi, 266° W

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