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Swayzee Indiana Map

Explore Swayzee, 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 Swayzee, Indiana

How to Use This Swayzee, Indiana Map

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

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.

CitySwayzee
StateIndiana (IN)
CountyGrant County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
Latitude40.508372
Longitude-85.825538
Population918
Density755.7 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code46986
Area Code574
County SeatMarion
School DistrictOak Hill United School Corporation

About Swayzee, Indiana

Swayzee is a locality in Grant County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 918. The population density is 755.7 people per km². Swayzee is located at 40.5084°N, 85.8255°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. Swayzee is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 46986.

Swayzee emerges from the flat, fertile expanse of the Indiana plains where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vault of heavy, pale sky. It lies 7.8 miles west-northwest of Grant, IN (from Grant, IN: bearing 288°T), and is situated 7.7 miles east-northeast of Greentown. Taylor Creek carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the periphery, its waters tracing the low-lying veins of the landscape before meandering toward the distance. Beyond the immediate fields, the far-off silhouette of The Hogback provides a subtle, jagged interruption to an otherwise level vista, while the quiet acreage of Swayzee Park offers a local sanctuary of grass and shade. Light here possesses a particular clarity, turning the stalks of late-summer crops into a sea of amber that seems to hold the sun long after it has dipped toward the western edge of the world.

Swayzee carries the quiet weight of an agrarian history, where the economy remains tied to the cycles of the soil and the steady labor of the seasons. While the influence of the region’s broader industrial shifts is visible in the architecture of older buildings and the layout of the grid, the daily pulse of Swayzee remains tethered to the slow, methodical work of the farm and the woodlot. Residents move with an inherited patience, recognizing the subtle changes in the weather and the turning of the earth that define their calendar. Though Fox Lake sits a few miles away and the deeper timber of Frances Slocum State Forest lies further out, the life of the place stays concentrated in these small, brick-lined streets and the shared spaces where the community gathers, grounded by the stillness of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Swayzee Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 286° W
  • Town Park (Local Park) — 4.9 mi, 034° NE
  • Howard County Fairgrounds (Local Recreation) — 7.1 mi, 257° W
  • Mississinewa Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 9.0 mi, 032° NE
  • James Dean Memorial Theater (Theatre) — 9.3 mi, 069° E
  • Mississinewa Lake (Recreation Area) — 10.1 mi, 353° N
  • Firefighter Garfield Statue (Public Artwork) — 10.5 mi, 100° E
  • Gas City Museum (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 097° E
  • M3 Stuart (Attraction) — 11.3 mi, 097° E
  • Reservoir Park Boat Launch (State Recreation Area) — 11.7 mi, 264° W
  • Martin Luther King Memeorial (Monument) — 15.9 mi, 266° W
  • Frances Slocum State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 16.0 mi, 337° NW
  • Indiana Women's Legacy Memorial (Monument) — 16.1 mi, 265° W
  • Taylor Univesity Tennis Courts (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 102° E
  • Mitchell Theatre (Theatre) — 17.6 mi, 101° E
  • Kirkendall Fish And Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.9 mi, 248° W
  • Worlds Largest Ball Of Paint (Attraction) — 18.3 mi, 160° S
  • Zimmer Ross (Gallery) — 19.3 mi, 216° SW
  • Salamonie Reservoir (State Recreation Area) — 19.3 mi, 027° NE
  • International Circus Hall of Fame (Museum) — 19.8 mi, 329° NW
  • Browns of Wabash (Historic Ruins) — 19.8 mi, 360° N
  • Clark Gallery (Gallery) — 19.9 mi, 000° N
  • Gallery 64 (Gallery) — 19.9 mi, 001° N
  • Mark Honeywell - Memorial (Attraction) — 19.9 mi, 000° N
  • Lonely Red Caboose (Attraction) — 20.0 mi, 001° N
  • Miami County Museum (Museum) — 21.3 mi, 323° NW
  • Martin Glade (State Conservation Area) — 21.5 mi, 019° N
  • Mounds State Park (State Park) — 29.6 mi, 159° S
  • Earthwork F (Historic Ruins) — 30.0 mi, 158° S
  • Summit Lake State Park (State Park) — 42.3 mi, 142° SE

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About This Swayzee Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Swayzee, Indiana. Coordinates: 40.508372, -85.825538. 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 Swayzee includes the ZIP code (46986), telephone area code (574), county seat of Grant County (Marion), and school district assignment (Oak Hill United 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 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.