Henry County, Indiana Map
Explore Henry County, Indiana with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 12 cities and towns in Henry County below.
Interactive Map of Henry County, Indiana
| County | Henry |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County Seat | New Castle |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 39.917939 |
| Longitude | -85.400642 |
| Cities & Towns | 12 |
| Area Codes | 260, 317 |
About Henry County, Indiana
Henry County occupies a plateau of glacial till in east-central Indiana, where the earth flattens into a vast, productive tableland drained by the upper reaches of the Big Blue River and the West Fork of the Whitewater. The landscape is a measured grid of corn and soybean fields broken by sudden, dense woodlots that hold the winter chill long after the sun has turned warm. Beneath the topsoil, ancient limestone deposits lie waiting, though the surface is defined by the subtle, rhythmic swells of moraines left behind by retreating ice sheets. In the late autumn, the light here grows thin and brittle, casting long, sharp shadows that stretch across the stubble of harvested fields until the horizon blurs into a slate-colored haze.
Settlers arrived in the early nineteenth century, primarily moving north from the Ohio River valley and bringing with them a sturdy, agrarian pragmatism. They carved the county out of the wilderness in 1821, tethering their collective identity to a central seat of government that grew around a bustling intersection of plank roads and stagecoach lines. The courthouse, constructed of local brick and stone, became the architectural anchor of the region, asserting a sense of permanence against the encroaching prairie. These early families organized their lives around the seasonal cycle of planting and harvest, establishing a bedrock of community that prioritized self-reliance and a quiet, defensive reserve, a character trait that persists in the way neighbors acknowledge one another with a brief, singular nod.
Economic currents have shifted here from the original milling and timber trade toward a mixture of manufacturing and modern logistics, yet the county maintains an enduring connection to the tactile nature of production. The local atmosphere is defined by the persistent hum of industry on the edges of town and the sight of high school gymnasiums that rise like secular cathedrals above the lower, residential rooftops, signaling the outsized importance of the basketball season. During the humid peak of midsummer, the air feels heavy with the scent of damp earth and diesel, a fragrance that clings to the skin as the day slows toward dusk. Henry County retains a gravity of its own, an unassuming persistence found in the slow, deliberate pace of its streets and the way the evening sky deepens into a bruised purple, quiet and vast, over the endless geometry of the fields.
Cities and Towns in Henry County
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About This Henry County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Henry County, Indiana alongside links to detailed street maps for 12 cities and towns. The county seat is New Castle. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
