A public map of everyday heroes — the teachers, veterans, nurses, volunteers, and neighbors who quietly hold communities together.
Most monuments honor the famous. Map of Heroes exists for everyone else — the people who shovel a neighbor’s walk, stay late with a struggling student, or run toward trouble when everyone else runs away. Their stories are usually told once, in a kitchen or at a funeral, and then lost. We give those stories a permanent, public place: a pin on the map and a page of their own, where the people they helped can find them and say thank you.
Map of Heroes is built and moderated by the Map of Heroes team — a small team that reads every nomination personally. We’re not a charity or a government project; the one-time $5 nomination fee is what keeps the map online, spam-free, and reviewed by real people. You can always reach us at hello@mapofheroes.org or through the contact page.
Anyone can nominate a hero for a one-time $5 fee: you tell their story, choose a city-level location, and it goes to our team for review. If we can’t approve a nomination, we refund the payment in full.
Before anything appears publicly, our team checks it against our community guidelines: positive recognition only, no private addresses, no photos without permission, nothing that could hurt the person being honored. Reviews usually finish within 2 business days.
Heroes marked “Honored by Map of Heroes” were added by our team: real people whose actions were publicly recognized in news reporting, added from published sources rather than a paid nomination. For these listings we use city-level locations only, we don’t publish photos we don’t have rights to, and we’ll gladly update or remove a listing at the request of the hero or their family — just contact us.
Five minutes and a one-time $5 fee put their story on the map for good.
Nominate a Hero