Westwood Indiana Map

About Westwood, Indiana

Westwood is a locality in Henry County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 584. The population density is 334.2 people per km². Westwood is located at 39.7867°N, 86.3264°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. ZIP codes: 46234, 47362.

Westwood anchors itself firmly into the flat, fertile mosaic of the Indiana interior, defined by the quiet persistence of the land. It lies 2.6 miles west-southwest of New Castle, IN (from New Castle, IN: bearing 255°T), and is situated 19.0 miles south of Muncie. Westwood Run carves a modest, meandering path through the earth here, its waters feeding the local geography long before they slip away toward larger basins. To the east, the Westwood Park Reservoir holds a stillness that mirrors the expansive, prairie-fed sky, providing a steady, quiet reflection for the surrounding woodlots. At the edges of the grid, the City of New Castle Lot offers a patch of maintained green that serves as a terrestrial anchor, a place where the horizon remains wide and unencumbered by the distant, hazy suggestion of Hog Back far to the south.

Agriculture and the steady hum of mechanical industry have long defined the way Westwood keeps time, threading the local economy through seasonal cycles and the steady output of its workshops. The pace of life here is dictated by the turning of the soil and the shifts in the light, which turns a deep, bruised gold as it catches the brickwork of the older storefronts at dusk. People move with a deliberate, grounded rhythm, mindful of the weather and the demands of the harvest, while the memory of earlier settlement persists in the sturdy, utilitarian architecture of the streets. There is a particular clarity to the air in the late afternoon, a crispness that clarifies the distance between the fields and the sky, marking Westwood as a place that demands little attention but rewards the patient observer with a sense of quiet, enduring purpose.

About This Westwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Westwood, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.786711, -86.326381. 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 Westwood includes the ZIP code (46234, 47362), telephone area code (260, 317), county seat of Henry County (New Castle), and school district assignment (New Castle Community School Corporation).

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.