Explore Camden, 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 Camden, 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 Camden.
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 | Camden |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Lorain County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.636679 |
| Longitude | -84.644663 |
| Population | 1,989 |
| Density | 618.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 44074, 45311 |
| Area Code | 216, 937 |
| County Seat | Elyria |
| School District | Preble Shawnee Local School District |
Camden occupies a quiet expanse of the interior plains, where the horizon stretches wide and the sky maintains a pale, watchful clarity. It lies 11.9 miles south-southwest of Amherst, OH (from Amherst, OH: bearing 201°T), and is situated 6.0 miles southwest of Oberlin. The landscape around Camden is defined by a rhythmic flatness, broken only by the thin, winding ribbon of the East Fork Vermilion River and the quiet stillness of Kipton Reservoir nearby. In the autumn, the air takes on a crisp, metallic edge, sharpening the silhouette of the trees that mark the property lines of the surrounding fields. Though the distant Sugar Ridge remains a faint suggestion of elevation far to the south, the immediate terrain is dominated by fertile, dark soil that yields to the slow, deliberate pace of the seasons.
Kipton Reservation serves as a silent anchor for the local environment, preserving a patch of wild growth that contrasts with the organized geometry of the adjacent farmland. Historically, Camden grew upon the steady labor of the land, its economy anchored by the productive cycles of agriculture and the modest industry that sustains a small, self-contained population. The rhythm of daily life here follows the sun, moving with a predictability that values endurance over haste. One observes in the faces of those who walk the streets of Camden a quiet familiarity with the land, a recognition that the prosperity of the place is bound to the quality of the earth and the slow, reliable turn of the year.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Camden, Ohio. Coordinates: 39.636679, -84.644663. 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 Camden includes the ZIP code (44074, 45311), telephone area code (216, 937), county seat of Lorain County (Elyria), and school district assignment (Preble Shawnee 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. |