Explore Meridian Hills, 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 Meridian Hills, 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 Meridian Hills.
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 | Meridian Hills |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Marion County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| Latitude | 39.89004 |
| Longitude | -86.15721 |
| Population | 1,774 |
| Density | 464.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 46260 |
| Area Code | 260 |
| County Seat | Indianapolis |
| School District | Washington Township Metropolitan School District |
Meridian Hills unfolds as a deliberate arrangement of shaded lanes and deep, verdant lots where the land rises into gentle swells, far removed from any maritime horizon. It lies 6.4 miles south-southwest of Carmel, IN (from Carmel, IN: bearing 199°T), and is situated 8.4 miles north of Indianapolis. Meridian Creek carves a quiet, meandering path through the terrain, its waters reflecting the heavy, humid light of late summer afternoons as they trace the valley floor. To the west, the distant elevation of Long Ridge provides a permanent, hazy anchor to the skyline, while the moist basin of Sparrow Hollow remains a soft, shadowed presence only a few miles away. The manicured greens of the Meridian Hills Country Club define the central character of the landscape, where the earth is groomed into precise, velvet-soft expanses that contrast with the wilder, wooded edges of the regional woodlot mosaic.
History in Meridian Hills manifests in the preservation of grand, secluded estates that favor a quiet, residential dignity over the clamor of industrial development. The local economy remains tethered to this legacy of refined stability, where the pace of life mimics the slow, deliberate pulse of the changing seasons rather than the erratic shifts of the marketplace. While Bacon Swamp lies a short distance away, its presence serves as a reminder of the raw, marshy origins of the territory before it was organized into these intentional, leafy avenues. Residents move through the day with a sense of guarded privacy, their lives unfolding in houses built of brick and stone that seem to settle more deeply into the soil with every passing decade, absorbing the stillness that characterizes this particular pocket of the interior plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Meridian Hills, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.89004, -86.15721. 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 Meridian Hills includes the ZIP code (46260), telephone area code (260), county seat of Marion County (Indianapolis), and school district assignment (Washington Township Metropolitan School District).
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. |