Explore Melody Hill, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Melody Hill, 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 Melody Hill.
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 | Melody Hill |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Vanderburgh County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.026153 |
| Longitude | -87.515848 |
| Population | 3,689 |
| Density | 1041.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 47711 |
| Area Code | 812 |
| County Seat | Evansville |
| School District | Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation |
Melody Hill emerges from the flat, industrious sprawl of the Midwestern interior as a collection of quiet streets defined by the constant, low-slung presence of the Licking Creek. It lies 4.2 miles north-northeast of Evansville, IN (from Evansville, IN: bearing 32°T), and is situated 5.1 miles southeast of Vanderburgh. This waterway carves a modest path through the local topography, acting as a drainage artery for a landscape dominated by a mosaic of woodlots and carefully managed farmland. To the distant horizon, the Wolf Hills provide a jagged, blue-gray silhouette that interrupts the otherwise unbroken expanse of the sky. The quality of light here, particularly during the late afternoons of autumn, turns the dry grasses and brick facades of the neighborhood into a burnished, monochromatic gold that seems to slow the pulse of the day.
Economic life in Melody Hill remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of regional commerce and the maintenance of a suburban infrastructure that values utility over ornament. Residents often find their recreation at the Goebel Soccer Complex, a wide, open expanse of mown turf that serves as a communal anchor for the younger generations. Those seeking a quieter respite frequently turn toward the water at Ray Nell Acres Lake, where the reeds lean heavy against the shoreline and the surface remains undisturbed by anything more than the flight of a local heron. The heritage of the area is not written in grand monuments, but in the steady, repetitive labor of those who have lived among these fields for decades, keeping the machinery of daily life in constant, reliable motion.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Melody Hill, Indiana. Coordinates: 38.026153, -87.515848. 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 Melody Hill includes the ZIP code (47711), telephone area code (812), county seat of Vanderburgh County (Evansville), and school district assignment (Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |