Explore Byesville, 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 Byesville, 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 Byesville.
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 | Byesville |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Guernsey County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.969794 |
| Longitude | -81.536511 |
| Population | 2,364 |
| Density | 761.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 43723 |
| Area Code | 740 |
| County Seat | Cambridge |
| School District | Rolling Hills Local School District |
Byesville occupies a landscape defined by the persistent, winding presence of Wills Creek, which carves a deliberate path through the earth just a short distance from the center of the locality. It lies 5.1 miles south-southeast of Cambridge, OH (from Cambridge, OH: bearing 147°T), and is situated 19.1 miles west of Barnesville. The terrain here rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells of soil, leading the eye toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Groves Ridge that marks the horizon. Within the immediate vicinity, the earth feels grounded and heavy with the scent of damp loam, especially where the land slopes down toward the water. A quiet stillness often settles over the terrain, broken only by the shifting light that catches the long grasses near the Unknown Ball Park, where the shadows stretch thin and gray as the sun dips behind the western rise.
Byesville carries the weight of a coal-mining heritage in its bones, a history etched into the very orientation of its streets and the resilience of its architecture. Once a hub of deep-shaft extraction, the local economy has transitioned through the slow, steady cycles of industry, finding new footing in the quiet persistence of regional trade and small-scale enterprise. Residents often travel the short distance to Indian Lakes Recreation Area Lower Lake for a respite from the day’s labor, finding the water a mirror to the changing seasons. The spirit of the place remains tied to the land, an inland existence that looks toward the distant, forested horizon of Blue Rock State Forest rather than the far-off edges of the continent, maintaining a pace of life that values the slow turning of the calendar over the rush of the modern world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Byesville, Ohio. Coordinates: 39.969794, -81.536511. 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 Byesville includes the ZIP code (43723), telephone area code (740), county seat of Guernsey County (Cambridge), and school district assignment (Rolling Hills 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. |