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Paxton Indiana Map

Explore Paxton, 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.

Interactive Map of Paxton, Indiana

How to Use This Paxton, Indiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Paxton, 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 Paxton.

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	Paxton
State	Indiana (IN)
County	Sullivan County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)

Latitude	39.021154
Longitude	-87.38863
Population	269
Density	222.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	47838, 47865
Area Code	765
County Seat	Sullivan
School District	Southwest School Corporation

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About Paxton, Indiana

Paxton is a locality in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 269. The population density is 222.3 people per km². Paxton is located at 39.0212°N, 87.3886°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. ZIP codes: 47838, 47865.

Paxton emerges from the flat, industrious plains of Indiana as a quiet collection of structures defined by the vast reach of the sky and the dark, fertile soil that anchors the horizon. It lies 20.0 miles south-southeast of Vigo, IN (from Vigo, IN: bearing 157°T), and is situated 5.2 miles south of Sullivan. The landscape surrounding Paxton is a mosaic of woodlot and working farmland, where the earth yields to the steady, meandering course of Robbins Branch just a mile from the center. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain shifts in subtle gradients toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Persimmon Ridge, which anchors the far western view. To the east, the Greene-Sullivan State Forest acts as a sprawling, verdant anchor for the region, offering a dense contrast to the open agricultural tracts that define the local topography. At dusk, the light here stretches thin and amber across the corn stubble, turning the gray expanse of the fields into a reflective surface that mirrors the shifting clouds.

Paxton maintains a character forged by the legacy of extraction and the patient, seasonal labor of the harvest. While the economic heartbeat of the region has evolved from the intensive coal mining that once necessitated the reclamation of sites like the nearby Greene-Sullivan State Forest, the land still bears the marks of its industrial history. Residents often look toward the quiet, still water of the New Harmony Mine Pond, a relic of a different era that now serves as a reflective boundary between the modern day and the deeper, subterranean past of the valley. Life in Paxton moves with the deliberate pace of a place that values the persistence of its small-town rhythm, where the collective memory of the surrounding hollows and ridges informs the quiet, steady work of the everyday. Occasionally, the call of wildlife drifts from the deeper woods of the nearby SRMA, reminding those who live here that the wild remains a constant, waiting presence just past the property line.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Greene-Sullivan State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 2.5 mi, 026° NE
Minnehana Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.8 mi, 002° N
Sullivan City Park (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 351° N
Sullivan County Park And Lake (Local Park) — 5.1 mi, 001° N
Sullivan Elks Country Club (Park) — 5.9 mi, 347° N
4-way Bridge (Attraction) — 8.0 mi, 085° E
Wabash River - Mount Carmel (Conservation Area) — 8.1 mi, 235° SW
Goose Pond Fish And Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 109° E
Merom Bluff (Viewpoint) — 10.1 mi, 284° W
Merom (Wabash R.) Public Access Site (State Recreation Area) — 10.1 mi, 284° W
Shakamak State Park (State Park) — 11.8 mi, 037° NE
Shakamak Prairie Nature Preserve (State Park) — 11.9 mi, 038° NE
Robeson Hills Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 22.9 mi, 200° S
Fred A. Jewell (Attraction) — 23.1 mi, 073° E
War Memorial (Monument) — 23.1 mi, 073° E
Richland-Plummer Creek Covered Bridge (Attraction) — 24.3 mi, 094° E
Francis Vigo (Monument) — 24.9 mi, 199° S
Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Monument) — 24.9 mi, 197° S
Daviess County Museum (Museum) — 27.7 mi, 155° SE
American Beech Woods Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 28.1 mi, 322° NW
Antique Tractor Museum (Museum) — 28.4 mi, 003° N
Proud Elk (Public Artwork) — 28.5 mi, 359° N
Indiana Track & Field & Cross Country Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 28.6 mi, 006° N
Clark County Museum (Museum) — 30.2 mi, 327° NW
Watermark Landing (Attraction) — 30.3 mi, 357° N
Swope Art Museum (Museum) — 30.7 mi, 358° N
Community Theatre of Clay County, Inc. (Theatre) — 37.4 mi, 022° N
Owen County Art Guild (Arts Centre) — 38.0 mi, 062° NE
Hoosier National Forest (National Forest) — 38.8 mi, 130° SE · 204k acres
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 42.6 mi, 181° S · 20k acres

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