Heltonville Indiana Map

About Heltonville, Indiana

Heltonville is a locality in Lawrence County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 11. The population density is 60.5 people per km². Heltonville is located at 38.9278°N, 86.3755°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. ZIP code: 47436.

Heltonville anchors itself within a landscape defined by the rhythmic pulse of Leatherwood Creek, which carves a path through the limestone-rich soil of the Indiana interior. It lies 5.8 miles north-northeast of Crawford, IN (from Crawford, IN: bearing 12°T), and is situated 7.6 miles northeast of Bedford. The terrain here transitions from flat, industrious farmland into the dense, shadowed canopy of the nearby Hoosier National Forest, which stands only three miles away to temper the summer heat. Beyond the immediate woodlots, the land rises toward the distant, modest elevation of Hominy Mortar, while the horizon is broken by the occasional dip of Sipes Hollow. When the sun hangs low, the light catches the fine, pale dust of the quarries, casting a soft, chalky glow over the fields that stretch toward the expanse of Monroe Lake.

Heltonville holds a quiet legacy rooted in the extraction of stone, a craft that once pulled the very foundation of the earth into the light to build monuments elsewhere. The economy, long tethered to the stubborn resilience of the soil and the deep-cut veins of limestone, retains a character forged by generations of laborers who preferred the steady work of the quarry to the shifting trends of the outside world. Life proceeds with a deliberate, unadorned cadence, where the morning air carries the scent of damp earth and the distant, mechanical hum of regional industry. Even as the modern world encroaches, the people of Heltonville maintain a sturdy, pragmatic independence, watching the seasons turn across the open plains with the same patience that stone possesses before it is broken.

About This Heltonville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Heltonville, Indiana. Coordinates: 38.927828, -86.375546. 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 Heltonville includes the ZIP code (47436), telephone area code (317), county seat of Lawrence County (Bedford), and school district assignment (North Lawrence Community Schools).

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.