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Congress Ohio Map

Explore Congress, 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.

Interactive Map of Congress, Ohio

How to Use This Congress, Ohio Map

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

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	Congress
State	Ohio (OH)
County	Wayne County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.92589
Longitude	-82.052927
Population	132
Density	318.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	44287
Area Code	440
County Seat	Wooster
School District	Northwestern Local School District

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About Congress, Ohio

Congress is a locality in Wayne County, Ohio, United States. It is a small community with a population of 132. The population density is 318.5 people per km². Congress is located at 40.9259°N, 82.0529°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Congress is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 44287.

Congress emerges from the fertile, flat expanse of the Ohio plains as a quiet intersection of rural industry and open sky. It lies 10.4 miles northwest of Wooster, OH (from Wooster, OH: bearing 324°T), and is situated 7.7 miles south-southwest of Lodi. The landscape surrounding Congress is defined by a rhythmic succession of cultivated fields and woodlots that stretch toward a horizon where the distant suggestion of Bell Ridge occasionally softens the edge of the sky. Shade Creek cuts a modest, winding path through the soil just a mile from the center, its banks lined with the persistent, silver-barked trees that thrive in the damp, heavy earth. Two miles away, the Boy Scout Camp offers a sanctuary of timber and quiet, while the waters of Mowrer Lake catch the bruised violet light of late afternoon, mirroring the wide, unencumbered clouds that drift across the interior of the continent.

Agriculture remains the pulse of Congress, with the architecture of grain silos and metal-clad barns serving as the primary monuments of the local economy. The history of the region is written in the orderly division of the land and the endurance of the families who have worked these fields since the early days of settlement, maintaining a pace that moves in accordance with the seasons rather than the clock. Life in Congress is marked by the deliberate hum of machinery during harvest and the sudden, profound stillness that follows the first frost. On clear evenings, the air carries a crisp, dry weight, untainted by the humidity of distant places, grounding the residents in a landscape that values the steady, repetitive labor of the soil and the quiet persistence of a life lived far from the clamor of the coast.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Boy Scout Camp (Private Recreation) — 1.5 mi, 091° E
Park (Local Park) — 5.2 mi, 034° NE
Wildwood Lakes (Private Recreation) — 6.3 mi, 336° NW
Hawks Nest Golf Club (Park) — 7.5 mi, 095° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 7.5 mi, 021° N
Mohicanville Reservoir (Recreation Area) — 8.7 mi, 204° SW
Westfield Historical Society (Museum) — 9.4 mi, 042° NE
Giant Swing (Attraction) — 10.1 mi, 123° SE
Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.4 mi, 191° S
Wayne County Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.6 mi, 143° SE
Wayne Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 10.7 mi, 147° SE
Medina Summit Land Conservancy (State Recreation Area) — 11.6 mi, 010° N
Spencer Reservoir (State Recreation Area) — 11.9 mi, 342° N
Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.3 mi, 163° S
Bauman Orchards (Attraction) — 13.6 mi, 077° E
Verterans Memorial (Monument) — 14.8 mi, 256° W
Johnny Appleseed Monument (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 256° W
"skypark" the Flying Community (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 063° NE
Jack Miller Stadium (Stadium) — 14.9 mi, 253° W
Findley State Park (State Park) — 15.2 mi, 330° NW
Wellington Reservation (Nature Reserve) — 17.9 mi, 329° NW
Observation Mound (Viewpoint) — 17.9 mi, 327° NW
Spirit of '76 Museum (Museum) — 18.9 mi, 333° NW
Rinky Dink (Attraction) — 20.5 mi, 045° NE
Waymouth school museum (Museum) — 22.3 mi, 037° NE
Mohican 100 - Finish Line (Attraction) — 23.8 mi, 206° SW
Lake 8 Movies (Cinema) — 23.8 mi, 075° E
White Rabbits Galleries (Arts Centre) — 23.8 mi, 075° E
Magical Theatre Company (Theatre) — 23.9 mi, 075° E
Cuyahoga Valley National Park (National Park) — 28.9 mi, 056° NE · 19k acres

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