Mackey Indiana Map

About Mackey, Indiana

Mackey is a locality in Gibson County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 131. The population density is 555.8 people per km². Mackey is located at 38.2523°N, 87.3917°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mackey is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 47660, 47654.

Mackey occupies a quiet intersection of flat, fertile earth where the horizon stretches wide under a sky that often seems to hold more weight than the ground itself. It lies 14.2 miles north-northwest of Warrick, IN (from Warrick, IN: bearing 330°T), and is situated 6.5 miles south-southwest of Oakland City. Halfmoon Creek traces a slow, deliberate path through the fields nearby, its banks fringed with the dense, shadowed canopy of Hemmer Woods Nature Preserve. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, turning the expanse of corn and soy into deep, ink-colored fields that absorb the heat of the day. While the distant Gordon Hills create a faint, serrated line against the western clouds, the immediate landscape remains defined by the rhythmic geometry of agriculture and the persistent, quiet growth of the surrounding woodlots.

Mackey reflects the endurance of a landscape shaped by generations of labor, where the economy remains tethered to the slow cycles of the soil and the legacy of regional resource extraction visible in the distant, scarred earth of Hoskins Pits. The architecture of the vicinity favors a functional, modest permanence, with brick foundations that have settled into the loam over decades of seasonal frost and thaw. Life moves in accordance with the seasonal demands of the harvest, a pace that feels less like stagnation and more like a deliberate alignment with the land’s own requirements. Even as the modern world intrudes through the hum of traffic on nearby transit arteries, Mackey retains a self-contained composure, anchored by the stillness of the trees and the heavy, black-dirt richness of the plains.

About This Mackey Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mackey, Indiana. Coordinates: 38.252269, -87.391681. 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 Mackey includes the ZIP code (47660, 47654), telephone area code (812), county seat of Gibson County (Princeton), and school district assignment (East Gibson School Corporation).

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.