Explore Ottoville, 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 Ottoville, 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 Ottoville.
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 | Ottoville |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Putnam County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.932272 |
| Longitude | -84.338838 |
| Population | 966 |
| Density | 395.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 45876 |
| Area Code | 234, 330 |
| County Seat | Ottawa |
| School District | Ottoville Local School District |
Ottoville occupies a level expanse of fertile midwestern earth where the horizon pulls tight against the sky, defined primarily by the slow, deliberate meander of the Little Auglaize River. It lies 13.5 miles east-northeast of Van Wert, OH (from Van Wert, OH: bearing 71°T), and is situated 6.1 miles north of Delphos. The landscape here is characterized by vast, flat agricultural grids that absorb the amber light of dusk, turning the fields into a monochromatic study of shadow and stubble. Within the immediate footprint of Ottoville, the Ottoville Quarry Wildlife Area offers a sudden, jagged contrast to the surrounding plains, its deep, water-filled basins reflecting the shifting clouds in a way that suggests a quiet, submerged memory of the earth’s internal structure. Thirteen miles to the north, the waters of Burt Lake exert a subtle influence on the regional climate, tempering the extremes of the season and keeping the air crisp even as the heat settles over the corn rows.
Ottoville maintains a character forged by the steady, repetitive cycles of the harvest and the enduring influence of its nineteenth-century settlement roots. The local economy remains tethered to the productivity of the soil, with grain elevators acting as the vertical sentinels of a commerce that relies on the patient rhythm of the seasons. Residents of Ottoville navigate a daily life marked by the absence of urgency, where the pace is set by the mechanical hum of farm machinery and the changing colors of the horizon rather than the frantic pulse of industrial centers. This is a place where the history of the land is read in the straightness of the fence lines and the modest, sturdy architecture of the streetscapes, keeping a steady faith in the utility of the ground and the quiet persistence of its people.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ottoville, Ohio. Coordinates: 40.932272, -84.338838. 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 Ottoville includes the ZIP code (45876), telephone area code (234, 330), county seat of Putnam County (Ottawa), and school district assignment (Ottoville 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. |