Explore Vaughnsville, 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 Vaughnsville, 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 Vaughnsville.
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 | Vaughnsville |
| State | Ohio (OH) |
| County | Putnam County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.881718 |
| Longitude | -84.150503 |
| Population | 278 |
| Density | 627.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 45893 |
| Area Code | 234, 330 |
| County Seat | Ottawa |
| School District | Columbus Grove Local School District |
Vaughnsville stretches across a flat, fertile expanse of Putnam County where the horizon feels wide enough to swallow the setting sun whole. It lies 9.9 miles north-northwest of Lima, OH (from Lima, OH: bearing 346°T), and is situated 7.0 miles north-northeast of Elida. Sugar Creek carves a shallow, deliberate path through the heavy silt, its waters moving with a quiet gravity that anchors the landscape against the shifting temperaments of the seasons. To the east, the earth flattens into an endless grid of corn and soybean fields, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Howard Ridge serves as a mere suggestion of height against the pale, vaulted sky. On autumn afternoons, the air here gains a peculiar, crisp weight, carrying the scent of drying stalks and damp earth as light filters through the clouds in long, muted shafts of ochre and gray.
Vaughnsville emerged from the nineteenth-century ambition of settlers who saw promise in the dark, productive loam and the reliable flow of the nearby creek. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of agriculture, a quiet industry that dictates the pace of the calendar and the steady hum of machinery echoing across the plains. Residents often venture toward the Cairo Ball Fields for recreation, finding a sense of continuity in the maintenance of those manicured diamonds, while the quiet solitude of Long Pool remains a favorite retreat for those seeking a reflection of the sky in still, inland water. Life in Vaughnsville moves with a deliberate, unforced cadence, defined less by the velocity of modern change and more by the enduring stability of the land that has sustained it since its founding.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Vaughnsville, Ohio. Coordinates: 40.881718, -84.150503. 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 Vaughnsville includes the ZIP code (45893), telephone area code (234, 330), county seat of Putnam County (Ottawa), and school district assignment (Columbus Grove 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. |