Explore Old Fort, 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 Old Fort, 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 Old Fort.
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 | Old Fort |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Seneca County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.240054 |
| Longitude | -83.149919 |
| Population | 143 |
| Density | 95.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 44883, 44861 |
| Area Code | 419 |
| County Seat | Tiffin |
| School District | Old Fort Local School District |
Old Fort occupies a landscape defined by the unhurried passage of the Sandusky River, which carves a path through the flat, fertile plains of northwestern Ohio. It lies 7.8 miles south of Fremont, OH (from Fremont, OH: bearing 191°T), and is situated 8.8 miles north of Tiffin. The river’s presence dictates the rhythm of the soil, keeping the earth dark and heavy with the promise of harvest, while the horizon remains wide and unobstructed, allowing the light of late afternoon to stretch long and amber across the fields. Twelve miles away, the quiet basin of Mohawk Lake offers a deeper stillness to the region, and just two miles from the center, the Sandusky Wolf Creek SR serves as a sanctuary where the local flora retains a wild, unmanicured integrity against the encroachment of the surrounding grid.
Old Fort persists as a place where the legacy of early settlement remains visible in the architecture of the older houses and the straight, purposeful lines of the roads. The local economy is tied to the strength of the land, with agricultural production and regional industry forming the bedrock of a life that values consistency over spectacle. Residents recognize the quiet character of their surroundings, where the labor of the day is often punctuated by the sound of the wind moving through the corn or the distant, steady hum of machinery. It is a location of modest scale, where the history of the frontier has settled into a calm, pragmatic present, and the pace of existence is measured by the seasonal turning of the crops rather than the frantic demands of the outside world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Old Fort, Ohio. Coordinates: 41.240054, -83.149919. 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 Old Fort includes the ZIP code (44883, 44861), telephone area code (419), county seat of Seneca County (Tiffin), and school district assignment (Old Fort Local 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. |