Explore Silver Lake, 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 Silver Lake, 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 Silver Lake.
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 | Silver Lake |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Kosciusko County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| Latitude | 41.072266 |
| Longitude | -85.891657 |
| Population | 875 |
| Density | 632.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 46982 |
| Area Code | 574 |
| County Seat | Warsaw |
| School District | Warsaw Community Schools |
Silver Lake occupies a quiet portion of the Indiana interior, where the horizon is defined by an expansive, level mosaic of agricultural fields and dense woodlots. It lies 11.6 miles south of Warsaw, IN (from Warsaw, IN: bearing 190°T), and is situated 8.1 miles northwest of North Manchester. The terrain here holds a persistent stillness, broken only by the thin, winding path of Arthur Ditch, which cuts through the soil a mile away, feeding the regional drainage with a slow, deliberate gravity. A few miles further, the surface of Caldwell Lake reflects the shifting clouds, offering a brief, pale interruption to the otherwise uniform spread of corn and soy. Sunlight in this region possesses a particular clarity, filtering through the high, open sky to sharpen the edges of local silos and the long, straight lines of gravel roads that divide the earth into precise, geometric parcels.
Silver Lake remains a place where the economy is tethered to the slow cycles of the harvest and the steady, mechanical pulse of regional industry. The rhythm of daily life follows the changing seasons, moving with the heavy machinery that traverses the rural landscape and the quiet persistence of those who maintain the local infrastructure. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, residents might travel toward the Carr Lake Public Access Site for a moment of stillness, or keep their eyes on the distant silhouette of McElroy Hill, which marks the edge of the visible world thirteen miles away. The character of the locale is found in the unadorned utility of its buildings and the deep, abiding patience of a region that has long measured time by the growth of crops and the cool, gray transition of the Indiana winter.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Silver Lake, Indiana. Coordinates: 41.072266, -85.891657. 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 Silver Lake includes the ZIP code (46982), telephone area code (574), county seat of Kosciusko County (Warsaw), and school district assignment (Warsaw Community 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. |