Explore Laurel, 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 Laurel, 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 Laurel.
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 | Laurel |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Clermont County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.915344 |
| Longitude | -84.191601 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 12.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 45157, 43135 |
| Area Code | 513, 614 |
| County Seat | Batavia |
Laurel emerges from the undulating landscape of southwestern Ohio as a quiet gathering of frame houses and brick facades, anchored firmly to the inland earth. It lies 7.9 miles south of Amelia, OH (from Amelia, OH: bearing 170°T), and is situated 8.3 miles south-southeast of Pierce Township. Sugar Creek winds through the low-lying terrain just a mile from the center, its course carving a modest path through the dense, deciduous woods that define the regional horizon. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the land lifts toward the gentle rise of Pleasant Hill, while the deeper shadows of Opossum Hollow provide a cool, damp respite from the midsummer heat. The quality of light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised violet hue, catching the dust motes that rise from the unpaved edges of the local roads before fading into the vast, dark canopy of the interior plains.
Laurel maintains a temperament shaped by the slow, seasonal pulse of agriculture and the legacy of its early settlers who cleared these thickets to build a life in the interior. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil and the small-scale commerce that serves the surrounding acreage, while the nearby Washington Township Park offers a quiet preserve for the local flora that has reclaimed the edges of old industry. Residents often journey the seven miles to William H Harsha Lake, where the water mirrors the shifting gray of the Ohio sky, a place where the stillness of the landscape feels as heavy and permanent as the history of the ground itself. Life in Laurel moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, where the identity of the place is not found in grand monuments, but in the persistent, quiet endurance of those who work the land and watch the seasons turn across the fields.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Laurel, Ohio. Coordinates: 38.915344, -84.191601. 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 Laurel includes the ZIP code (45157, 43135), telephone area code (513, 614), county seat of Clermont County (Batavia), and school district assignment.
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. |