New Goshen Indiana Map

About New Goshen, Indiana

New Goshen is a locality in Vigo County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 402. The population density is 46.9 people per km². New Goshen is located at 39.5856°N, 87.4745°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. ZIP code: 47863.

New Goshen emerges from the flat, fertile plains of the Midwest as a quiet intersection of earth and sky. It lies 4.2 miles north-northwest of Harrison, IN (from Harrison, IN: bearing 330°T), and is situated 8.3 miles north-northwest of Terre Haute. North Coal Creek carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, its banks lined with the tangled, silver-limbed sycamores that define the local horizon. The air here holds a particular, heavy stillness, especially in the cooling hours of dusk when the light turns the color of harvested wheat and shadows stretch long across the grid of fields. Only a mile away, the quiet surface of Grant Mine Pond reflects the shifting clouds, providing a still point in a geography dominated by the rhythmic, expansive pulse of agriculture. Far off to the south, the distant, hazy silhouette of Devils Backbone provides a reminder of the rugged limestone country that shapes the wider state.

New Goshen remains anchored to the soil, a place where the economy is written in the seasonal language of crop rotations and the steady, mechanical hum of machinery. The influence of the Wabash Healthy Rivers project reaches into the surrounding acreage, emphasizing a stewardship of the land that has persisted through generations of homesteaders and farmers. Life here moves according to the demands of the seasons rather than the frantic pace of the wider world, favoring the steady work of the harvest and the maintenance of local woodlots over the noise of industry. While the modern world asserts itself in the steady passage of vehicles on nearby roads, the spirit of New Goshen stays bound to the quiet persistence of the Indiana prairie, where the history of the ground is felt in the depth of the topsoil and the endurance of its people.

About This New Goshen Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Goshen, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.585594, -87.474482. 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 New Goshen includes the ZIP code (47863), telephone area code (765), county seat of Vigo County (Terre Haute), and school district assignment (Vigo County 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.