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St. Mary of the Woods Indiana Map

Explore St. Mary of the Woods, 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 St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana

How to Use This St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for St. Mary of the Woods, 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 St. Mary of the Woods.

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	St. Mary of the Woods
State	Indiana (IN)
County	Vigo County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)

Latitude	39.510869
Longitude	-87.467243
Population	767
Density	239.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	47885, 47876
Area Code	765
County Seat	Terre Haute
School District	Vigo County School Corporation

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About St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana

St. Mary of the Woods is a locality in Vigo County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 767. The population density is 239.0 people per km². St. Mary of the Woods is located at 39.5109°N, 87.4672°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. ZIP codes: 47885, 47876.

St. Mary of the Woods emerges from a landscape defined by the deliberate, quiet persistence of the East Little Sugar Creek as it carves a path through the dense, verdant canopy of the Wabash Valley. It lies 2.7 miles west-southwest of Harrison, IN (from Harrison, IN: bearing 243°T), and is situated 4.2 miles northwest of Terre Haute. The air here holds a heavy, earthen stillness, particularly as the low light of dusk catches the surface of Saint Marys Lake, turning the water into a sheet of hammered pewter. Beyond the immediate perimeter of the grounds, the terrain shifts into a mosaic of managed woodlots and sprawling farmland, where the horizon remains flat and expansive, save for the faint, jagged suggestion of Indian Ridge that haunts the distant skyline on the clearest of days. Visitors looking for a sense of the wilder, local ecology often find themselves at the Green Valley Public Fishing Area, where the rhythm of the land is measured not by clocks, but by the slow, seasonal migration of waterfowl and the deepening shadows of the timber.

History in St. Mary of the Woods is rooted in a tradition of quiet industry and scholarship, tethered to the enduring presence of the Sisters of Providence who shaped the physical and spiritual architecture of the grounds. The economy here functions with a steady, unadorned efficiency, far removed from the frantic pace of the state’s larger industrial centers, focusing instead on the cultivation of the intellect and the stewardship of the surrounding acreage. Brick buildings, weathered by generations of Indiana winters, stand as markers of a long-standing commitment to education, their solid frames providing a grounding contrast to the fluid, changing colors of the nearby fields. Life here moves with the deliberate grace of a slow-turning season, where the most distinctive feature remains the profound silence that descends once the sun retreats behind the tree line, leaving the woods to reclaim their dominion over the darkening soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Log Cabin Chapel (Attraction) — 0.4 mi, 103° E
Green Valley Public Fishing Area (State Recreation Area) — 1.9 mi, 269° W
Wabash Healthy Rivers (State Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 069° E
Elks - Ft. Harrison Country Club (Park) — 2.8 mi, 076° E
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 2.9 mi, 166° S
Wabashiki Fish And Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 157° SE
Collett Park (Local Park) — 3.4 mi, 108° E
Woodlawn Monument Sight (Monument) — 3.5 mi, 127° SE
Haley Tower (Attraction) — 4.1 mi, 114° SE
Fairbanks Park (Local Park) — 4.3 mi, 143° SE
Wabash Valley Girls Softball League (Local Recreation) — 4.3 mi, 100° E
A Chorus of Trumpets (Public Artwork) — 4.3 mi, 133° SE
Watermark Landing (Attraction) — 4.4 mi, 145° SE
Swope Art Museum (Museum) — 4.5 mi, 134° SE
Fairbanks Park Boat Ramp (State Recreation Area) — 4.5 mi, 146° SE
Wabash Healthy Rivers Initiative (State Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 170° S
Kieweg Woods (State Resource Management Area) — 5.5 mi, 203° SW
Rea Municipal Golf Course (Park) — 6.6 mi, 151° SE
Freedom Shrine (Monument) — 7.8 mi, 104° E
Antique Tractor Museum (Museum) — 8.0 mi, 133° SE
Indiana Track & Field & Cross Country Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 8.8 mi, 128° SE
Claude Matthews Medallion (Monument) — 10.9 mi, 019° N
Clark County Museum (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 235° SW
American Beech Woods Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 17.5 mi, 228° SW
Community Theatre of Clay County, Inc. (Theatre) — 18.1 mi, 087° E
Obsons Farm Corn Maze (Attraction) — 21.7 mi, 027° NE
Sunset Point (Viewpoint) — 29.3 mi, 028° NE
Putnam County Train Museum (Museum) — 33.4 mi, 073° E
Howards Hollow Seep Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 35.6 mi, 351° N
Owen County Art Guild (Arts Centre) — 40.7 mi, 113° SE

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