Explore Stone Bluff, 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 Stone Bluff, 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 Stone Bluff.
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 | Stone Bluff |
| State | Indiana (IN) |
| County | Fountain County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| Latitude | 40.170038 |
| Longitude | -87.252787 |
| Population | 134 |
| Density | 74.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 47987 |
| Area Code | 765 |
| County Seat | Covington |
| School District | Southeast Fountain School Corporation |
Stone Bluff emerges from the landscape where the land flattens into a mosaic of woodlots and heavy, dark soil. It lies 5.7 miles southeast of Fountain, IN (from Fountain, IN: bearing 130°T), and is situated 8.6 miles south of Attica. Coal Creek carves a narrow, rhythmic path past the outskirts, its water reflecting the pale Indiana sky as it moves toward the deeper basins. Beyond the immediate fields, the horizon holds the faint, jagged suggestion of Devils Backbone, a silent gray silhouette against the afternoon haze. The air here carries the scent of damp earth and cooling iron, a weight that settles over the fields long before the sun loses its heat. Four miles away, the Portland Arch Nature Preserve (Original) offers a starker topography, where rock formations suggest the ancient, slow labor of geology that defines the quiet character of the ground beneath Stone Bluff.
Stone Bluff persists as a place built on the steady, unremarkable commerce of the interior, where the economy has long leaned into the yields of the surrounding acreage and the persistence of local trade. Men and women here move with a deliberate pace, acknowledging the history of the region in the way they maintain their fences and the brick facades of the main thoroughfare. To the west, the deeper depressions of Rattlesnake Hollow drain the overflow of seasonal rains, while those seeking stillness often venture toward the edges of Shawnee Lake. Life in Stone Bluff is measured by the changing color of the corn and the brief, bright intensity of a summer thunderstorm. It is a location of practical habits, where the evening light pulls long shadows across the pavement, grounding every resident in the simple, unyielding fact of the horizon.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Stone Bluff, Indiana. Coordinates: 40.170038, -87.252787. 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 Stone Bluff includes the ZIP code (47987), telephone area code (765), county seat of Fountain County (Covington), and school district assignment (Southeast Fountain 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. |