Explore Ila, Georgia, 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 Ila, Georgia. 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 Georgia 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 Ila.
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 | Ila |
| State | Georgia (GA) |
| County | Madison County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.172609 |
| Longitude | -83.292099 |
| Population | 350 |
| Density | 175.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 30633, 30647, 30530 |
| Area Code | 770, 678 |
| County Seat | Danielsville |
| School District | Madison County School District |
Ila emerges from the red-clay Piedmont as a quiet convergence of woodland and field, defined by the persistent, shallow course of Furnace Creek as it carves through the local topography. It lies 15.4 miles north-northeast of Athens, GA (from Athens, GA: bearing 19°T), and is situated 9.7 miles east-southeast of Commerce. The landscape surrounding Ila remains anchored by the dense, shadowed canopy of the Odum Watershed, a nearby sanctuary where the scent of pine needles and damp earth lingers long after the afternoon heat dissipates. Distant, hazy silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains occasionally haunt the northwestern horizon, providing a stark, jagged counterpoint to the soft, rhythmic undulations of the immediate soil. When the sun descends, the light catches the iron-rich dust of the country roads, casting a copper glow across the horizon that mimics the very color of the ground beneath.
Ila maintains a character forged by the slow, deliberate pace of agrarian tradition, where the local economy has long leaned into the yields of the surrounding acreage and the quiet endurance of small-scale commerce. History here is marked not by grand monuments, but by the steady persistence of families who have worked the land through generations, leaving their mark in the weathered wood of barns and the orderly rows of seasonal crops. Life in Ila gravitates toward the rhythms of the seasons, occasionally punctuated by the stillness of Reservoir 51, a body of water that mirrors the vast, expansive Georgia sky with a glassy, unmoving clarity. This locality functions as a bridge between the deep, quiet woods and the widening reach of the modern world, holding tight to a sense of place that values the weight of the soil and the permanence of the horizon.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ila, Georgia. Coordinates: 34.172609, -83.292099. 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 Ila includes the ZIP code (30633, 30647, 30530), telephone area code (770, 678), county seat of Madison County (Danielsville), and school district assignment (Madison County 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. |