Westwood Indiana Map

About Westwood, Indiana

Westwood is a locality in Marion County, Indiana, United States. Westwood is located at 39.7867°N, 86.3264°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. ZIP codes: 46234, 47362.

Westwood occupies a quiet stretch of Indiana terrain defined by the patient, silt-heavy meanderings of the East Fork White Lick Creek. It lies 3.3 miles west-southwest of Speedway, IN (from Speedway, IN: bearing 251°T), and is situated 9.0 miles west of Indianapolis. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek’s banks, the landscape opens into a mosaic of woodlots and flat, productive soil, where the light at dusk turns the haze above the fields a dusty, bruised violet. To the west, the horizon remains stubbornly level, though the distant suggestion of Long Ridge occasionally interrupts the skyline like a forgotten thought. Residents often seek the cooling margins of Eagle Creek Reservoir, a three-mile journey that feels like a migration toward a deeper, more settled stillness, while Robey Park offers a compact, manicured respite for those who prefer their nature strictly defined by the town’s own measured boundaries.

Westwood reflects the enduring cadence of a region built upon the persistent labor of the plow and the steady, unpretentious commerce of the interior plains. The economy here remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, a vestige of an era when the land dictated the clock and the calendar with equal authority. While Sparrow Hollow rests six miles away as a reminder of the more rugged, shadowed geological history of the state, the life of Westwood stays rooted in the brick-and-mortar reality of local enterprise and the quiet persistence of its neighborhoods. There is a distinct, rhythmic hum to the daily passage of time here, an atmosphere that owes little to the outside world, favoring instead the simple, reliable patterns of a life lived in accordance with the soil and the sky.

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 Marion County (Indianapolis), 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.