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Griffin Indiana Map

Explore Griffin, 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 Griffin, Indiana

How to Use This Griffin, Indiana Map

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

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	Griffin
State	Indiana (IN)
County	Posey County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.204213
Longitude	-87.914753
Population	143
Density	811.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	47616
Area Code	812
County Seat	Mount Vernon
School District	North Posey County Schools Metropolitan School District

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About Griffin, Indiana

Griffin is a locality in Posey County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 143. The population density is 811.9 people per km². Griffin is located at 38.2042°N, 87.9148°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Griffin is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 47616.

Griffin occupies a low-slung expanse of the Indiana plains where the horizon pulls wide and empty against the weight of a heavy, humid sky. It lies 14.0 miles north of Posey, IN (from Posey, IN: bearing 355°T), and is situated 14.2 miles west-northwest of Martin. The landscape around Griffin is a mosaic of intensive agriculture, where the dark, loamy earth of the fields yields to small, stubborn woodlots that hold the shadows long after the sun has retreated. A mile to the west, the sluggish waters of Big Bayou cut through the soil, carving a narrow, muddy path that dictates the drainage of the surrounding flatlands. In the late autumn, the light turns a bruised violet over the corn stubble, giving the terrain an austere, quiet beauty that seems to hold its breath against the coming winter.

Griffin maintains a cadence defined by the turn of the seasons and the slow labor of the grain elevator, which stands as a silent sentinel over the modest architecture of the grid. The economy remains tethered to the fertility of the surrounding acreage, a legacy of settlement that persists in the utilitarian brickwork of the older structures. Residents often look toward the New Harmony Public Access Site for a brief respite in the timbered corridors of the river bottoms, a place where the human imprint thins out into the wilder growth of the basin. Despite the encroaching quiet of the modern age, Griffin keeps a steady, self-reliant pace, anchored by the persistence of those who continue to work the soil and trade in the harvest of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Shalev: Angel of Compassion (Public Artwork) — 5.0 mi, 190° S
Paul Tillich Memorial (Monument) — 5.1 mi, 192° S
Archaeological Dig (Historic Ruins) — 5.2 mi, 193° S
The Atheneum & Visitors Center at Historic New Harmony (Museum) — 5.2 mi, 195° S
Thrall's Opera House (Theatre) — 5.2 mi, 191° S
Hoosier Salon (Gallery) — 5.3 mi, 192° S
New Harmony Contemporary Gallery & Shop (Gallery) — 5.3 mi, 192° S
Matthias Scholle House (Museum) — 5.3 mi, 191° S
George Keppler House (Museum) — 5.3 mi, 191° S
Maximillian Bodmer Exhibit (Museum) — 5.3 mi, 192° S
1830 Owen House Jacquess Parlor (Museum) — 5.3 mi, 191° S
New Harmony Public Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 5.3 mi, 195° S
Murphy Auditorium & USI New Harmony Theatre (Theatre) — 5.4 mi, 192° S
The Labyrinth State Memorial (Monument) — 5.8 mi, 192° S
New Harmony State Memorial (Monument) — 6.0 mi, 189° S
Wabash Border Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.5 mi, 192° S
Harmonie State Park (State Park) — 8.0 mi, 184° S
Wabash River - Mount Carmel (Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 029° NE
Little Wabash River (Conservation Area) — 9.8 mi, 274° W
Harmonie Hills Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 10.3 mi, 193° S
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.0 mi, 041° NE · 20k acres
Beall Woods State Park (Nature Reserve) — 11.5 mi, 024° NE
Beall Woods Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 11.8 mi, 025° NE
Gibson Lake Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 11.9 mi, 040° NE
Gibson County Visitors & Tourism (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 060° NE
Bieker-Wilson Village Site (Historic Ruins) — 21.7 mi, 204° SW
Green River National Wildlife Refuge And Conservation Partnership Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.8 mi, 139° SE · 2,073 acres
John James Audubon State Park (State Park) — 28.7 mi, 136° SE
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 37.9 mi, 202° S · 274k acres
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 39.9 mi, 212° SW · 7,712 acres

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