Patriot Indiana Map

About Patriot, Indiana

Patriot is a locality in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 201. The population density is 274.2 people per km². Patriot is located at 38.8387°N, 84.8269°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Vevay) timezone. Patriot is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 47038.

Patriot occupies a quiet stretch of land where the earth settles into a slow, deliberate cadence defined by the persistent flow of Wade Creek. It lies 12.8 miles east of Switzerland, IN (from Switzerland, IN: bearing 91°T), and is situated 7.8 miles south of Rising Sun. The landscape here is defined by the heavy, fertile soil of the Egypt Bottom just a few miles off, while the looming presence of Searcy Ridge provides a dark, serrated horizon against the afternoon sky. Sunlight tends to linger in the valleys, turning the fields into pools of amber and bronze as the day wanes, casting long, sharp shadows across the woodlot mosaic that defines the local terrain. While Bullock Pen Lake sits ten miles away, the immediate surroundings remain governed by the rhythm of the damp, inland earth and the shifting moods of the local canopy.

Patriot remains a place where the weight of nineteenth-century ambitions still lingers in the architecture of the older buildings, standing as silent witnesses to an era when the regional economy turned on the movement of goods through the interior. Though the industry has shifted away from its earliest roots, the local character retains a stubborn, industrious persistence, favoring the steady work of the farm and the woodlot over the frantic pace of the outside world. Visitors often find their way toward Big Bone Landing, where the land opens up to reveal a quiet expanse of preserved wilderness that speaks to the deeper, older history of the region. Life in Patriot moves with the gravity of the seasons, marked by the turning of the crops and the cooling air that drifts down from the ridge, keeping the spirit of the place grounded in the simple, uncompromising reality of the Indiana soil.

About This Patriot Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Patriot, Indiana. Coordinates: 38.838674, -84.826892. 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 Patriot includes the ZIP code (47038), telephone area code (317, 463), county seat of Switzerland County (Vevay), and school district assignment (Switzerland 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.