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Willow Branch Indiana Map

Explore Willow Branch, 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 Willow Branch, Indiana

How to Use This Willow Branch, Indiana Map

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

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.

CityWillow Branch
StateIndiana (IN)
CountyHancock County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
Latitude39.876154
Longitude-85.684421
Population167
Density126.8 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code46186
Area Code260
County SeatGreenfield
School DistrictEastern Hancock County Community School Corporation

About Willow Branch, Indiana

Willow Branch is a locality in Hancock County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 167. The population density is 126.8 people per km². Willow Branch is located at 39.8762°N, 85.6844°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) timezone. ZIP code: 46186.

Willow Branch emerges from the flat, heavy loam of the Indiana plains where the earth holds the sky in a long, unbroken horizontal line. It lies 7.7 miles northeast of Greenfield, IN (from Greenfield, IN: bearing 36°T), and is situated 9.4 miles east-northeast of Hancock. The Willow Branch waterway carves a modest, winding path through the soil, its current often sluggish beneath the shade of skeletal hardwoods that lean toward the water as if listening to the silt shifting below. Four miles away, Perry Lake acts as a quiet mirror for the gray-blue clouds, its surface undisturbed by anything more restless than the seasonal flight of geese. Far on the horizon, the vague, hazy suggestion of Hog Back disrupts the otherwise perfect levelness of the horizon, a reminder that the land eventually finds a more jagged rhythm far beyond the horizon of the local fields.

Agriculture defines the pulse of Willow Branch, where the economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons and the heavy yield of corn and soybean harvests. History here is kept not in books, but in the weathering of wooden barns and the sturdy, unadorned brick foundations that persist long after the original settlers have vanished into the topsoil. Six miles away, the expanse of Wilson Park provides a rare, undisturbed pocket of native grasses and timber, a place where the air feels lighter and the silence carries a sharp, metallic clarity. Daily life moves with the measured pace of a pendulum, defined by the sound of tires humming over county roads and the way the late afternoon light turns the dust of the fields into a fine, suspended gold.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Giant Cross (Public Artwork) — 5.4 mi, 217° SW
  • Pennsy Trail Park (Local Park) — 6.7 mi, 200° S
  • Brandywine Park (Local Park) — 7.8 mi, 210° SW
  • John William "Will" Vawter (Monument) — 8.0 mi, 216° SW
  • Pendleton Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 9.5 mi, 344° N
  • Ray Harroun Historical marker (Monument) — 11.9 mi, 350° N
  • Fall Creek Woods (Nature Reserve) — 11.9 mi, 034° NE
  • City of New Castle Lot (State Conservation Area) — 14.0 mi, 076° E
  • Custom Framing and Fine Art Gallery (Gallery) — 14.7 mi, 286° W
  • Mounds State Park (State Park) — 15.1 mi, 011° N
  • Earthwork C (Historic Ruins) — 15.3 mi, 012° N
  • Emagine Cinemas 16 (Cinema) — 15.4 mi, 301° NW
  • Earthwork D (Historic Ruins) — 15.4 mi, 012° N
  • Flag poles (Monument) — 16.3 mi, 004° N
  • Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park (State Park) — 16.4 mi, 272° W
  • Wilbur Wright Fish And Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.3 mi, 071° E
  • Warren Perfoming Arts Center (Theatre) — 17.8 mi, 251° W
  • Whispering Hills Golf Course (State Recreation Area) — 17.9 mi, 238° SW
  • Belfry Theatre (Theatre) — 18.2 mi, 302° NW
  • Indiana State Police Museum (Museum) — 18.4 mi, 253° W
  • Memorial and External Flame (Attraction) — 18.5 mi, 254° W
  • Greenway - Fall Creek (State Recreation Area) — 19.3 mi, 268° W
  • Regal Cinemas 10 (Cinema) — 19.5 mi, 304° NW
  • Burr Oak Bend Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 21.1 mi, 313° NW
  • Forest Park Carousel & Concessions (Attraction) — 21.7 mi, 305° NW
  • The Reef Aquarium Shop (Aquarium) — 23.2 mi, 267° W
  • Full Circle 9 Gallery (Gallery) — 24.8 mi, 255° W
  • Hoosier National Forest (National Forest) — 59.1 mi, 202° S · 204k acres
  • Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 63.0 mi, 185° S · 16k acres
  • Charles C. Deam Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 65.1 mi, 210° SW · 13k acres

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About This Willow Branch Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Willow Branch, Indiana. Coordinates: 39.876154, -85.684421. 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 Willow Branch includes the ZIP code (46186), telephone area code (260), county seat of Hancock County (Greenfield), and school district assignment (Eastern Hancock County Community 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.