Explore Rome City, 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 Rome City, 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 Rome City.
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 | Rome City |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Noble County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| Latitude | 41.489413 |
| Longitude | -85.358787 |
| Population | 1,322 |
| Density | 347.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 46784 |
| Area Code | 574 |
| County Seat | Albion |
| School District | East Noble School Corporation |
Rome City emerges from the flat, industrious plains of northern Indiana as a place where the Middle Branch Elkhart River carves a quiet, persistent path through the landscape. It lies 6.9 miles west-northwest of Kendallville, IN (from Kendallville, IN: bearing 303°T), and is situated 7.4 miles north-northeast of Albion. Sylvan Lake anchors the horizon, its waters holding the pale, reflective light of late afternoon like a mirror held up to the sky, while the grasses of Mainland Park ripple in the drafts that skip across the open expanse. The air here carries the scent of damp earth and cooling asphalt, a stillness that settles over the woodlots and farmland long before the sun disappears behind the distant, shadowed silhouette of Baby Mountain.
Gene Stratton-Porter once walked these grounds, finding a profound, quiet sanctuary in the intersection of water and wild growth that defines the character of Rome City. The local economy maintains a steady, rhythmic pulse, rooted in the legacy of those who first cleared the timber and built homes along the banks, shifting from early mill-driven endeavors to the modern, modest pace of a working community. Life here adheres to the turning of the seasons, where the encroaching gray of winter settles over the lake and the vibrant green of summer yields to the heavy, golden haze of the harvest. It is a place defined by its inland solitude, where the land and water exist in a mutual, unspoken agreement to remain exactly as they are.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rome City, Indiana. Coordinates: 41.489413, -85.358787. 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 Rome City includes the ZIP code (46784), telephone area code (574), county seat of Noble County (Albion), and school district assignment (East Noble 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. |