Explore New Palestine, 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 New Palestine, 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 New Palestine.
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 | New Palestine |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Hancock County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| Latitude | 39.721988 |
| Longitude | -85.889147 |
| Population | 2,744 |
| Density | 616.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 46163 |
| Area Code | 260 |
| County Seat | Greenfield |
| School District | New Palestine Community Schools |
New Palestine emerges from the flat, fertile expanse of the Indiana plains where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a heavy, expansive sky. It lies 7.4 miles south-southwest of Hancock, IN (from Hancock, IN: bearing 197°T), and is situated 7.7 miles southwest of Greenfield. Sugar Creek carves a patient path through the terrain near the settlement, its waters moving with a quiet, persistent gravity that reflects the muted colors of the surrounding fields. Beyond the immediate reach of the town’s quiet streets, the landscape transitions into a mosaic of woodlots and open acreage, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Pea Ridge offers a faint suggestion of elevation far to the south. The atmosphere here carries the scent of damp earth and coming weather, particularly during the golden, slanted light of late afternoon when the shadows of the trees lengthen across the black loam.
New Palestine maintains a steady, deliberate pace that honors its legacy as a crossroads in an agricultural heartland, where the economy has long drawn sustenance from the productivity of the soil. Residents often find their recreation in the simple, structured activity at the Warren Township Little League, a space that serves as a quiet anchor for the community’s social life. Though the dense, mature canopy of the Swain Memorial Forest provides a sanctuary of solitude nine miles away, the spirit of the people remains rooted in the immediate, familiar rhythms of the local landscape. Even the nearby stillness of Spring Lake, sitting just four miles off, mirrors the calm disposition of a place that values the steady movement of the seasons over the frantic pulse of the outside world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Palestine, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.721988, -85.889147. 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 Palestine includes the ZIP code (46163), telephone area code (260), county seat of Hancock County (Greenfield), and school district assignment (New Palestine Community Schools).
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. |