Explore Oldenburg, 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 Oldenburg, 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 Oldenburg.
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 | Oldenburg |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Franklin County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| Latitude | 39.339773 |
| Longitude | -85.204406 |
| Population | 647 |
| Density | 580.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 47036, 47006 |
| Area Code | 317, 463 |
| County Seat | Brookville |
| School District | Batesville Community School Corporation |
Oldenburg occupies a quiet expanse of the Indiana plateau where the land breaks into a mosaic of woodlots and heavy, clay-rich soil. It lies 14.9 miles east of Greensburg, IN (from Greensburg, IN: bearing 89°T), and is situated 2.9 miles north-northeast of Batesville. The Harvey Branch carves a shallow, determined path through the terrain, its water reflecting the slate-gray sky that often settles over the valley floor. To the west, the distant rise of McGuire Ridge darkens the horizon, a blunt silhouette against the dusk, while the local landscape remains defined by the stillness of Unknown Park, which serves as a silent, unadorned buffer for the surrounding acreage. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp earth and coming rain, and the light at twilight turns the fields to a bruised, muted gold that clings to the fences long after the sun has dipped from view.
Oldenburg maintains a stoic character rooted in the legacy of its nineteenth-century founders, who laid out the streets with a deliberate, European geometry that persists in the brick architecture of the village. The local economy relies on the steady, rhythmic labor of small-scale agriculture and a tradition of craftsmanship that values the durability of wood and stone over the haste of modern production. Life in Oldenburg follows the slow rotation of the seasons, marked by the tolling of church bells and the infrequent passage of vehicles toward the distant, shimmering surface of Sycamore Lake. It is a place where the past is not a decorative relic but a functional part of the day, visible in the heavy, hand-hewn foundations and the quiet, inward-looking habits of a people who have learned to measure time by the growth of the timber and the turning of the soil.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oldenburg, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.339773, -85.204406. 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 Oldenburg includes the ZIP code (47036, 47006), telephone area code (317, 463), county seat of Franklin County (Brookville), and school district assignment (Batesville Community 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. |