Explore Bloomdale, Ohio, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bloomdale, Ohio. 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 Ohio 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 Bloomdale.
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 | Bloomdale |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Wood County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.172553 |
| Longitude | -83.556319 |
| Population | 665 |
| Density | 386.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 44817 |
| Area Code | 419 |
| County Seat | Bowling Green |
| School District | Elmwood Local School District |
Bloomdale anchors itself upon the flat, expansive plains of northwestern Ohio, where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a sky that seems to possess more gravity than the earth below. It lies 7.3 miles west of Fostoria, OH (from Fostoria, OH: bearing 278°T), and is situated 6.4 miles east of North Baltimore. The South Branch Portage River winds through the periphery of this landscape, its waters carving a quiet, persistent path through the silty soil just a mile from the center of town. To the north, the land holds the memory of ancient glacial retreats, offering a muted, consistent topography that occasionally rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Howard Ridge. Wildlife Production Area 20 provides a sanctuary of tall grasses and seasonal wetlands nearby, serving as a reminder of the wilder, uncultivated state that once defined this entire interior expanse before the plow arrived.
Bloomdale emerged from the steady ambition of mid-nineteenth-century settlers who recognized the fertility of the dark, heavy loam, establishing an economy fundamentally tied to the rhythms of the harvest and the persistent cycle of the seasons. While the industrial currents of the region have shifted, the spirit of the place remains rooted in the labor of the field and the pragmatic persistence of its people, who often spend their leisure hours walking the perimeter of Van Buren Lake or traversing the Lake Shore Trail. The atmosphere here is marked by a deep, resonant stillness, particularly at dusk, when the fading light catches the dust rising from country roads and the town settles into the long, dark quiet of the plains. It is a place that asks for little, yet rewards the patient observer with the stark, unadorned beauty of an honest landscape that refuses to be anything other than what it is.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bloomdale, Ohio. Coordinates: 41.172553, -83.556319. 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 Bloomdale includes the ZIP code (44817), telephone area code (419), county seat of Wood County (Bowling Green), and school district assignment (Elmwood Local School District).
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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |