Explore Russia, 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 Russia, 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 Russia.
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 | Russia |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Shelby County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.234493 |
| Longitude | -84.409394 |
| Population | 712 |
| Density | 349.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 45363 |
| Area Code | 937 |
| County Seat | Sidney |
| School District | Russia Local School District |
Russia occupies a flat, expansive plateau of Ohio farmland where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a sky that seems to possess more weight than the earth itself. It lies 10.8 miles northwest of Piqua, OH (from Piqua, OH: bearing 305°T), and is situated 4.0 miles east-northeast of Versailles. Ninemile Creek carves a shallow, quiet path through the surrounding fields, its narrow channel often obscured by the tall grasses and dense brush that hug the banks. The air here holds a distinct stillness, particularly at dusk when the low light catches the dust motes and turns the vast, orderly rows of crops into dark, rhythmic lines that pull the eye toward the edge of the world. Within the immediate perimeter, Community Park provides a local clearing where the flat topography remains uninterrupted, offering a solitary vantage point to watch the slow shift of shadows across the soil.
Russia maintains a character forged by the persistence of its agrarian roots and a quiet, industrious independence that defines its daily movement. The local economy remains anchored to the land, an extension of the broader regional history where the cycle of planting and harvest dictates the pulse of the calendar. While the distant, thundering descent of Greenville Falls remains nine miles away and the quiet basin of Sheeny Hollow sits eleven miles to the south, the pace of life in Russia is governed by the immediate needs of the soil and the steady, unadorned work of its people. Even the proximity of Leighty Lake, four miles removed, serves as a reminder of the quiet, inland geography that separates this place from the frantic pace of the industrial corridors, keeping the rhythm of the day tethered to the simple, enduring reality of the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Russia, Ohio. Coordinates: 40.234493, -84.409394. 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 Russia includes the ZIP code (45363), telephone area code (937), county seat of Shelby County (Sidney), and school district assignment (Russia 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. |