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St. Paul Indiana Map

Explore St. Paul, 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. Paul, Indiana

How to Use This St. Paul, Indiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for St. Paul, 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. Paul.

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.

CitySt. Paul
StateIndiana (IN)
CountyDecatur County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
Latitude39.428105
Longitude-85.628309
Population960
Density1265.0 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code47272
Area Code317
County SeatGreensburg
School DistrictDecatur County Community Schools

About St. Paul, Indiana

St. Paul is a locality in Decatur County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 960. The population density is 1265.0 people per km². St. Paul is located at 39.4281°N, 85.6283°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. St. Paul is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 47272.

St. Paul emerges from the flat, fertile expanse of the Indiana plains where the winding course of Mill Creek defines the local topography. It lies 10.0 miles northwest of Greensburg, IN (from Greensburg, IN: bearing 309°T), and is situated 10.2 miles southeast of Shelbyville. The landscape here is a mosaic of field and woodlot, where the horizon remains wide and unobstructed, save for the distant, hazy silhouette of McGuire Ridge marking the far edge of the sky. Light at dusk possesses a peculiar clarity in St. Paul, turning the gray limestone dust of the earth into a soft, glowing silver that settles over the fields long after the sun has dipped below the horizon. The air carries the scent of damp soil and drying stalks, a steady, grounded atmosphere that persists even as the seasons turn the foliage from vibrant green to the brittle, muted tones of late autumn.

St. Paul maintains a quiet economic character, rooted firmly in the extraction and utility of the underlying rock that has long shaped the regional industry. The legacy of limestone quarrying remains evident in the local architecture and the very texture of the ground, a material history that continues to influence the way the land is worked. Residents often look toward the Greensburg Reservoir Public Fishing Area for recreation, finding a necessary stillness in the water eight miles away, or seek the deeper shade of Swain Memorial Forest when the summer heat presses down on the open plains. Life in St. Paul moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own boundaries, where the rhythm of the day is marked not by the rush of distant centers, but by the slow, predictable changes in the fields and the seasonal cycles of the surrounding countryside.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Greensburg Reservoir Public Fishing Area (State Recreation Area) — 8.1 mi, 136° SE
  • Greensburg City Park (Local Park) — 8.8 mi, 138° SE
  • Blue River Memorial Park (Local Park) — 9.3 mi, 319° NW
  • Lest We Forget (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 129° SE
  • Spanish American War Veterans Marker (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 129° SE
  • Decatur County Civil War Memorial Marker (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 129° SE
  • Little Balser and His Bears (Public Artwork) — 10.3 mi, 310° NW
  • Princess Theater (Cinema) — 15.9 mi, 038° NE
  • Biergartens (Viewpoint) — 18.7 mi, 148° SE
  • YES Cinema (Cinema) — 22.2 mi, 225° SW
  • On Stage Live At The Luxe (Arts Centre) — 27.6 mi, 298° NW
  • Whip-poor-will Woods (Nature Reserve) — 28.5 mi, 249° W
  • Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 32.9 mi, 194° S · 16k acres
  • Hoosier National Forest (National Forest) — 34.5 mi, 226° SW · 204k acres
  • Charles C. Deam Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 44.1 mi, 232° SW · 13k acres

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About This St. Paul Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Paul, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.428105, -85.628309. 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 St. Paul includes the ZIP code (47272), telephone area code (317), county seat of Decatur County (Greensburg), and school district assignment (Decatur County 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.