Explore Custar, 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 Custar, 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 Custar.
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 | Custar |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Wood County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.284773 |
| Longitude | -83.844384 |
| Population | 178 |
| Density | 273.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 43511 |
| Area Code | 740 |
| County Seat | Bowling Green |
| School District | Bowling Green City School District |
Custar emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of northwest Ohio like a quiet punctuation mark in a long sentence of corn and soybean fields. It lies 11.8 miles west-southwest of Bowling Green, OH (from Bowling Green, OH: bearing 238°T), and is situated 19.5 miles north-northwest of Findlay. The land here remains stubbornly level, a vast inland reach where the sky claims more territory than the earth, and the light at dusk bleeds a bruised, violet hue across the open expanse. A mile away, the Cutoff Ditch carves a thin, deliberate line through the dark soil, its banks often overgrown with tall grasses that shiver in the persistent prairie wind. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Callahan Ridge disrupts the otherwise unbroken skyline, while the local Park provides a modest patch of green where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the rustle of leaves and the occasional passage of a freight train.
Custar holds the echoes of its railway beginnings in the weathered timber of its older buildings, a physical record of the commerce that once dictated the pulse of these plains. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, a seasonal cycle that dictates the movement of heavy grain trucks along narrow roads and defines the collective patience of the neighborhood. While the distant, dense canopy of Maumee State Forest offers a deeper shade of green for those venturing further afield, the inhabitants here find their own distinct character in the isolation of the fields and the slow, deliberate pace of rural labor. Life in Custar moves with the quiet gravity of a place that understands its own scale, where the sun rises over fields that have been worked for generations and the evening air smells of damp earth and the coming frost.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Custar, Ohio. Coordinates: 41.284773, -83.844384. 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 Custar includes the ZIP code (43511), telephone area code (740), county seat of Wood County (Bowling Green), and school district assignment (Bowling Green City 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. |