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Oakham Massachusetts Map

Explore Oakham, Massachusetts, 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 Oakham, Massachusetts

How to Use This Oakham, Massachusetts Map

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

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.

City	Oakham
State	Massachusetts (MA)
County	Worcester County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	42.352869
Longitude	-72.045354
Population	1,900
Density	28.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	01068
Area Code	339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978
County Seat	Worcester

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About Oakham, Massachusetts

Oakham is a locality in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,900. The population density is 28.0 people per km². Oakham is located at 42.3529°N, 72.0454°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 01068.

Oakham rests upon a landscape defined by the quiet accumulation of glacial debris and the steady reclamation of forest over former agricultural clearings. It lies 8.0 miles north-northwest of Spencer, MA (from Spencer, MA: bearing 340°T), and is situated 9.3 miles west of Holden. The horizon is broken by the distant, soft silhouettes of the Burnshirt Hills, while the immediate terrain is a mosaic of dense thickets and open fields that hold the morning mist until well past the hour of sunrise. Water defines the local geography in miniature, with the slow, deliberate movement of Maynard Brook carving through the soil and the still, dark surface of Peg Millpond reflecting the changing canopy. Oakham State Forest provides a sprawling, wooded buffer to the west, where the scent of damp pine needles and decaying leaves anchors the air in a heavy, earthen stillness.

Oakham maintains a character shaped by the agrarian ambitions of its early settlers, who cleared the stubborn, rock-strewn earth to establish a life far from the reach of any maritime influence. The local economy has transitioned from the seasonal rhythms of subsistence farming to a quiet, residential existence, where the daily pace is marked by the passage of light across the grounds of the Oakham Center School. History here is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring stone walls that bisect the woods, marking boundaries that have outlived those who built them. Life in this place follows the slow rotation of the seasons, an existence lived in the shade of the interior woodlands, where the quietude of the land seems to dictate the steady, unhurried cadence of its inhabitants.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Oakham Center School (Recreation Easement) — 0.3 mi, 355° N
Ware River Watershed (Waterfowl Production Area) — 0.7 mi, 037° NE
Path Continues (Attraction) — 0.8 mi, 193° S
Oakham Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.9 mi, 188° S
Old Car (Attraction) — 1.2 mi, 206° SW
Oakham State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 1.7 mi, 162° S
Treasure Valley (Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 099° E
Rutland State Park (State Park) — 2.1 mi, 053° NE
Barre State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 317° NW
Barre Falls Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 037° NE
Corridor 71 Continues (Attraction) — 2.9 mi, 141° SE
St. Jospeh's Abbey (Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 162° S
Quabbin Aqueduct (Waterfowl Production Area) — 3.9 mi, 052° NE
Moore State Park (State Park) — 4.1 mi, 115° SE
Barre Falls Reservoir (Recreation Area) — 4.1 mi, 021° N
1932 Rutland Train Crash Site (Monument) — 5.4 mi, 064° NE
Civil War Memorial (Monument) — 6.7 mi, 115° SE
Difley Cabin Cellar Hole (Attraction) — 6.7 mi, 123° SE
"the Living Room" (Historic Ruins) — 8.9 mi, 158° S
KIA Memorial (Monument) — 9.5 mi, 211° SW
Indian Amphitheater (Theatre) — 9.8 mi, 117° SE
Williams Homestead Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 9.8 mi, 320° NW
Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery (Gallery) — 11.8 mi, 119° SE
ArtWorks Gallery (Gallery) — 11.9 mi, 237° SW
Fuller Theater (Theatre) — 11.9 mi, 119° SE
Harrington Performing Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 12.3 mi, 106° E
Human Chess Board (Public Artwork) — 13.1 mi, 116° SE
Krikorian Gallery (Gallery) — 13.1 mi, 112° E
Upper Perrault Hall (Cinema) — 13.3 mi, 114° SE
Cinema 360 (Cinema) — 13.4 mi, 122° SE

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