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Friendship Ohio Map

Explore Friendship, 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 Friendship, Ohio

How to Use This Friendship, Ohio Map

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

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

Latitude	38.697854
Longitude	-83.093788
Population	343
Density	113.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	45630, 45663
Area Code	937
County Seat	Portsmouth
School District	Washington-Nile Local School District

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About Friendship, Ohio

Friendship is a locality in Scioto County, Ohio, United States. It is a small community with a population of 343. The population density is 113.1 people per km². Friendship is located at 38.6979°N, 83.0938°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 45630, 45663.

Friendship unfolds where the dense, tangled greenery of the Shawnee State Forest meets the persistent, rhythmic cutting of Turkey Creek. It lies 5.7 miles west-southwest of Portsmouth, OH (from Portsmouth, OH: bearing 246°T), and is situated 9.5 miles southwest of Clay Township Scioto County. The air here holds a heavy, mossy coolness that clings to the skin, a lingering dampness rising from the earth as the sun slips behind the distant, jagged silhouette of Beauty Ridge. To the west, the land pulls away into the quiet, shaded depths of Opossum Hollow, where the shadows lengthen early and the silence is punctuated only by the scuttle of dry leaves. Four miles out, the still, dark water of Pond Lick Lake reflects the wide, changing expanse of the Ohio sky, acting as a glass pane for the drifting clouds. It is a landscape defined by its seclusion, where the terrain rises and falls in deliberate, earthy swells that suggest a world long before the intrusion of pavement or wire.

Friendship remains anchored to a heritage of hard labor and the quiet persistence of those who worked the timber and the soil of these rugged foothills. The economy, once tethered to the slow extraction of local resources and the rhythms of agrarian life, now moves at a measured pace, mirroring the steady, unpretentious flow of the nearby creek. Life in Friendship operates in the margins of the larger industrial rust that marks the horizon, favoring the maintenance of small plots and the preservation of long-held family boundaries. There is a distinct lack of urgency here, a refusal to be hurried by the frantic hum of modern commerce that characterizes the busier corridors to the north. Instead, the days are measured by the shifting light against the timberline and the seasonal changes that turn the forest from a vibrant, humid green into a brittle, muted bronze, ensuring that the character of the place remains as stubborn and enduring as the stone beneath the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Shawnee State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 0.3 mi, 025° NE
Shawnee State Park (State Park) — 0.9 mi, 219° SW
Earl Thomas Conley Riverside Park (Local Park) — 2.8 mi, 058° NE
Camp Oyo (Private Recreation) — 3.6 mi, 303° NW
Riverfront Park (Local Park) — 5.0 mi, 063° NE
Theodore Roosevelt Game Preserve (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 294° NW
2018 Girl's Little League World Series Softball Champions (Public Artwork) — 5.1 mi, 063° NE
Candyland Children's Museum (Museum) — 5.4 mi, 064° NE
Portsmouth Stars Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 5.5 mi, 066° NE
Spock Memorial (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 066° NE
River Overlook (Viewpoint) — 5.8 mi, 068° E
Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center (Museum) — 5.9 mi, 064° NE
Clark Planetarium (Museum) — 5.9 mi, 068° E
Civil War Memorial (Monument) — 6.0 mi, 062° NE
Stan Spence Baseball Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.3 mi, 074° E
Elks Country Club (Park) — 8.5 mi, 029° NE
Musketeer Field (Stadium) — 12.9 mi, 111° E
Brush Creek State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 13.6 mi, 002° N
Lewis County Historical Society (Museum) — 13.9 mi, 241° SW
Greenbo Lake State Resort Park (State Park) — 16.7 mi, 146° SE
Wayne National Forest (National Forest) — 17.3 mi, 107° E · 243k acres
E. Lucy Braun Lynx Prairie Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 17.4 mi, 284° W
Brush Creek Iron Furnace (Historic Ruins) — 18.3 mi, 298° NW
John and Marion Becker Cedar Falls Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 18.3 mi, 299° NW
Natural Bridge (Attraction) — 22.2 mi, 185° S
Fern Bridge (Attraction) — 22.6 mi, 183° S
Smoky Bridge (Attraction) — 22.8 mi, 184° S
Old Homestead (Attraction) — 22.8 mi, 187° S
Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.6 mi, 269° W · 6,562 acres
Daniel Boone National Forest (National Forest) — 27.0 mi, 218° SW · 564k acres

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