Explore South Haven, 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 South Haven, 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 South Haven.
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 | South Haven |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Wabash County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.543784 |
| Longitude | -87.136654 |
| Population | 5,084 |
| Density | 1579.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 46992, 46385 |
| Area Code | 574, 260 |
| County Seat | Wabash |
| School District | Portage Township Schools |
South Haven emerges from the flat, industrious expanse of the Indiana plains where the Wabash River carves a deliberate path through the earth. It lies 1.1 miles south-southwest of Wabash, IN (from Wabash, IN: bearing 205°T), and is situated 15.2 miles east-northeast of Wells. The landscape holds a quiet, austere tension, defined by the interplay between the dark, fertile soil of the fields and the persistent flow of the river that moves with the gravity of centuries. To the west, the horizon remains broad and unbroken, though the distant silhouette of The Hogback provides a subtle verticality to an otherwise horizontal world. Residents often find the most stillness at the edge of Paradise Spring Historical Park, where the land feels held in a state of suspended animation, and the nearby descent of Shanty Falls offers the only sharp, percussive sound in the humid silence of a summer afternoon.
History in South Haven remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of agriculture and the legacy of regional transit that once funneled goods across the Midwest. The local economy persists as a quiet mosaic of trade and labor, reflective of a region that values the utility of a well-maintained woodlot over the artifice of rapid development. Life here adheres to the slow, predictable turn of the seasons, often punctuated by a trip toward J Camberlain Pond or a drive toward the denser canopy of the Salamonie River State Forest to escape the midday heat. South Haven carries itself with a grounded, unpretentious gravity, where the quality of the light at dusk—a bruised, golden violet—seems to settle over the brick facades and silos, reminding those who live there that the permanence of the land is the only true measure of time.
Loading news…
Loading news-world…
Loading news-world…
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of South Haven, Indiana. Coordinates: 41.543784, -87.136654. 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 South Haven includes the ZIP code (46992, 46385), telephone area code (574, 260), county seat of Wabash County (Wabash), and school district assignment (Portage Township 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. |