Explore Roll, 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 Roll, 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 Roll.
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 | Roll |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Blackford County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| Latitude | 40.552266 |
| Longitude | -85.39025 |
| Population | 169 |
| Density | 75.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 47348 |
| Area Code | 317 |
| County Seat | Hartford City |
| School District | Blackford County Schools |
Roll emerges from the flat, industrious earth as a quiet intersection of open sky and dark, fertile soil. It lies 5.4 miles northwest of Blackford, IN (from Blackford, IN: bearing 312°T), and is situated 7.1 miles north of Hartford City. The Greenlee Ditch cuts a narrow, purposeful path through the surrounding fields, draining the heavy land and directing the runoff toward the horizon where the faint, serrated silhouette of The Hogback lingers like a memory of distant upheaval. Spiker Lake sits only two miles away, its stillness reflecting the wide, unencumbered heavens that cast a sharp, unfiltered light upon the gravel shoulders and fence lines. The air here holds the scent of turned earth and drying corn stalks, a crisp clarity that defines the landscape long before the sun dips below the level plains to paint the clouds in bruised shades of violet and ochre.
Roll remains a product of the patient, seasonal labor that defines the local economy, where the rhythm of the day is governed by the mechanical hum of tractors and the shifting demands of the harvest. Families have worked these woodlots and pastures for generations, maintaining a tether to a past carved out of the wilderness by iron tools and stubborn persistence. Five miles away, the Montpelier Community Park offers a rare patch of managed greenery, a place where the pace of life slows to match the swaying of native grasses. In the quiet transition of the afternoon, the essence of Roll reveals itself not in grand architecture, but in the steady, rhythmic persistence of a place that asks for little and provides a sturdy foundation for those who call it home.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Roll, Indiana. Coordinates: 40.552266, -85.39025. 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 Roll includes the ZIP code (47348), telephone area code (317), county seat of Blackford County (Hartford City), and school district assignment (Blackford County 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. |