Vicksburg Indiana Map

About Vicksburg, Indiana

Vicksburg is a locality in Greene County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 164. The population density is 175.9 people per km². Vicksburg is located at 39.0906°N, 87.1981°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. ZIP code: 47441.

Vicksburg claims a quiet corner of the Hoosier landscape, defined by the persistent, low-slung meander of Buck Creek as it carves through the surrounding fields. It lies 19.4 miles south of Clay, IN (from Clay, IN: bearing 189°T), and is situated 4.2 miles north-northwest of Linton. The horizon remains broad and flat, occasionally broken by the silhouettes of trees that lead toward the deeper, untamed timber of the Greene-Sullivan State Forest. To the south, the earth folds into the subtle depressions of Possum Hollow, while the distant, hazy suggestion of Persimmon Ridge marks the limits of the view. Sunlight here has a way of thickening in the late afternoon, catching the dust of gravel roads and the still surface of Sunflower Pond, which mirrors the vast, empty sky with a glassy, unblinking intensity.

Vicksburg remains tied to the cycles of the soil, where the economy still breathes in rhythm with the harvest and the maintenance of the land. Generations have worked the surrounding fields, their labor grounding Vicksburg in a tradition of quiet persistence that resists the frantic pace of the wider world. Life often gravitates toward the local gathering points, where the manicured greens of the Boltenwoods Golf Course, Range, and Academy offer a sharp contrast to the wilder, unkempt edges of the woodlots. Evenings settle with a heavy, honest stillness, broken only by the sound of the wind moving through the corn or the distant, rhythmic clatter of machinery, leaving the inhabitants to find their own measure of peace in the deepening shadows of the plains.

About This Vicksburg Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Vicksburg, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.090599, -87.198069. 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 Vicksburg includes the ZIP code (47441), telephone area code (317), county seat of Greene County (Bloomfield), and school district assignment (Shakamak Schools Metropolitan School District).

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.