Explore Orwell, 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 Orwell, 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 Orwell.
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 | Orwell |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Ashtabula County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.535055 |
| Longitude | -80.868144 |
| Population | 1,533 |
| Density | 299.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 44076 |
| Area Code | 216 |
| County Seat | Jefferson |
| School District | Grand Valley Local School District |
Orwell maintains a quiet vigil over the landscape, anchored six miles from the shimmering expanse of Lake Roaming Rock. It lies 16.3 miles north of Champion Township, OH (from Champion Township, OH: bearing 2°T), and is situated 7.0 miles northeast of Mesopotamia Township. The terrain surrounding Orwell defines itself through a steady, terrestrial patience, far removed from the brine of any coast and shaped instead by the slow, persistent wanderings of the Grand River just two miles to the west. Fields stretch toward the horizon in a patchwork of muted greens and browns, occasionally broken by the dense, untamed thickets of the Orwell Wildlife Area. When the light dips low in the evening, it casts long, amber shadows across the flat, fertile earth, rendering the distant rise of Owens Mound a mere suggestion against the darkening sky.
History in Orwell hums with the steady industry of the Western Reserve, a legacy of purposeful settlement that favors utility and resilience over ornament. The local economy persists as a marriage of agricultural tradition and the quiet persistence of regional enterprise, where the rhythm of the day is marked by the movement of heavy machinery and the seasonal harvest. One might observe the subtle endurance of the past in the sturdy architecture and the deliberate pace of those navigating the grid, a reflection of a life lived in harmony with the cycles of the interior plains. Here, the absence of coastal noise allows for a singular clarity, where the rustle of wind through the brush and the distant, rhythmic pulse of daily labor define the true character of the place.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Orwell, Ohio. Coordinates: 41.535055, -80.868144. 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 Orwell includes the ZIP code (44076), telephone area code (216), county seat of Ashtabula County (Jefferson), and school district assignment (Grand Valley 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. |