Explore Nashville, 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 Nashville, 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 Nashville.
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 | Nashville |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Brown County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| Latitude | 39.207733 |
| Longitude | -86.236172 |
| Population | 1,256 |
| Density | 302.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 46186, 47448 |
| Area Code | 260, 317 |
| County Seat | Nashville |
| School District | Brown County County School Corporation |
Nashville occupies a basin defined by the steady, winding passage of the Jackson Branch and the steep, timbered rise of Watton Hill. It lies 4.6 miles west-northwest of Brown, IN (from Brown, IN: bearing 299°T), and is situated 15.0 miles east of Bloomington. The air here holds the damp weight of the deep woods, clinging to the low ground of Harden Hollow where the shadows settle long before the sun disappears behind the ridgelines. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the dense, unyielding growth of Yellowwood State Forest stretches toward the horizon, while the terrain closer to the center remains defined by the rugged topography of Brown County State Park. The light at dusk turns the color of weathered limestone, catching the edges of the trees and casting a sharp, blue-gray stillness over the land that feels as heavy and permanent as the bedrock beneath the soil.
Nashville maintains a quiet commerce built upon the legacy of the painters and craftsmen who arrived early in the century to capture the particular quality of the autumn light. Galleries and workshops occupy the spaces where older, simpler structures once stood, creating an economy that relies on the steady migration of visitors seeking the solitude of the interior landscape. The rhythm of the days is dictated by the movement of the wind through the hardwoods and the seasonal shift of the canopy, rather than the frantic pace of the plains to the north. While the rest of the state moves toward industrial abstraction, Nashville persists in a deliberate, measured fashion, keeping its focus on the preservation of a way of life that values the physical craft of the hands over the quick turnover of modern trade.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Nashville, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.207733, -86.236172. 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 Nashville includes the ZIP code (46186, 47448), telephone area code (260, 317), county seat of Brown County (Nashville), and school district assignment (Brown County County 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. |