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Minerton Ohio Map

Explore Minerton, 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 Minerton, Ohio

How to Use This Minerton, Ohio Map

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

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

Latitude	39.066741
Longitude	-82.403766
Population	280
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	45686, 45660
Area Code	937
County Seat	McArthur

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About Minerton, Ohio

Minerton is a locality in Vinton County, Ohio, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Minerton is located at 39.0667°N, 82.4038°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 45686, 45660.

Minerton anchors the quiet floor of a basin where the earth seems to exhale a perpetual, cool dampness into the evening air. It lies 24.3 miles southwest of Athens, OH (from Athens, OH: bearing 222°T), and is situated 8.0 miles east-southeast of Wellston. Raccoon Creek carves a slow, meandering path through the local landscape, its dark waters reflecting the skeletal silhouettes of hardwoods that define the horizon. To the east, the silhouette of Hothouse Ridge rises as a jagged, purple bruise against the twilight, effectively pinning the town against the encroaching woodland. A few miles beyond the residential edges, the Broken Aro Wildlife Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and scrub, where the light at dusk turns the fields into a muted palette of copper and slate. The atmosphere here carries the scent of damp loam and cooling stone, a sensory reminder of the deep, inland silence that persists far from the chaotic pulse of larger, busier centers.

Minerton bears the marks of a region once defined by the extraction of subterranean wealth, a history that lingers in the rusted remnants of iron works and the slow, deliberate pace of those who remain. The local economy, having long moved past its industrial peak, now leans into a quiet persistence, where the daily rhythm is dictated more by the turning of the seasons than by the frantic demands of the modern clock. Residents often venture toward the distant, shaded paths of the Acorn Trail or seek the stillness of the Ohnoname 22 Reservoir, where the water remains undisturbed by anything more than the occasional ripple of a waterfowl. Even as the decades have smoothed the sharper edges of its past, Minerton maintains a stubborn, grounded character, defined by the way the sun catches the grain of old timber and the steady, unpretentious endurance of the people who call this landscape home.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Broken Aro Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 269° W
General John Hunt Morgan Memorial Plaque (Monument) — 4.1 mi, 081° E
Keystone Nature Preserve Site Fee (Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 210° SW
Vinton Furnace Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 002° N
Village of Vinton Park and Recreation Fields (Local Park) — 6.9 mi, 150° SE
Lake Alma State Park (State Park) — 7.5 mi, 314° NW
Soldier's Square (Monument) — 7.6 mi, 302° NW
Memory Garden (Monument) — 7.7 mi, 303° NW
Stroth-Rader Habitat Conservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 7.9 mi, 307° NW
Wellston Ballfield (Local Recreation) — 8.4 mi, 301° NW
Baker Swamp State Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 14.1 mi, 236° SW
Jackson Lake State Park (State Park) — 15.1 mi, 222° SW
Wayne National Forest (National Forest) — 15.1 mi, 194° S · 243k acres
Leo Petroglyph (Historic Ruins) — 15.7 mi, 292° W
Hope Furnace (Historic Ruins) — 18.6 mi, 010° N
Devils Tea Table (Attraction) — 19.3 mi, 022° N
The White Falcon (Public Artwork) — 20.1 mi, 101° E
Trisolini Gallery (Gallery) — 24.1 mi, 042° NE
Ash Cave (Attraction) — 24.2 mi, 342° N
Athena Cinema (Cinema) — 24.3 mi, 042° NE
The School of Visual Communication Gallery (Gallery) — 24.3 mi, 042° NE
Ohio University Art Gallery (Gallery) — 24.4 mi, 042° NE
Passionworks (Arts Centre) — 24.4 mi, 042° NE
Wayne Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 25.9 mi, 030° NE · 1,082 acres
Lookout Point (Viewpoint) — 26.0 mi, 042° NE
Scioto Trail State Forest (State Recreation Area) — 26.2 mi, 291° W
Dogwood Pass (Attraction) — 26.6 mi, 261° W
Table Rock/Fat Mans Squeeze (Attraction) — 28.1 mi, 344° N
Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.1 mi, 115° SE · 6,562 acres

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