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Alexander Illinois Map

Explore Alexander, Illinois, 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.

Interactive Map of Alexander, Illinois

How to Use This Alexander, Illinois Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Alexander, Illinois. 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 Illinois 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 Alexander.

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	Alexander
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Morgan County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.724493
Longitude	-90.038168
Population	155
Density	60.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	62601
Area Code	217
County Seat	Jacksonville
School District	Franklin Community Unit School District 1

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About Alexander, Illinois

Alexander is a locality in Morgan County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 155. The population density is 60.8 people per km². Alexander is located at 39.7245°N, 90.0382°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62601.

Alexander anchors itself firmly within the expansive, flat horizon of the Illinois prairie, where the sky claims more territory than the earth below. It lies 10.2 miles east of Jacksonville, IL (from Jacksonville, IL: bearing 94°T), and is situated 18.0 miles west of Chatham. The land around Alexander stretches out in a disciplined geometry of corn and soybean fields, broken only by the occasional cluster of hardwood trees or the sharp, straight lines of rural fence rows. Two miles to the east, Spring Creek carves a modest, seasonal path through the silt, its banks often obscured by the tall grasses that lean into the current. On the clearest days, the faint, hazy suggestion of Spunky Ridge might be discerned far off on the horizon, a distant ripple in the otherwise unrelenting flatness of the plains. The air here holds a particular, dry clarity, especially as the sun begins to dip low, casting long, lean shadows that emphasize the stark, horizontal reach of the landscape.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Alexander, dictating the seasonal rhythm of the local economy as surely as the coming of the frost or the spring thaw. The settlement grew out of the necessity of the rail lines and the productivity of the deep, black soil, establishing a character defined by hard labor and the patient maintenance of homesteads. While the quietude of the surroundings invites a slower pace, residents occasionally venture toward the water at Franklin Waverly Outing Club Lake or find a moment of stillness at Foreman Grove Park. Life in Alexander moves with an unadorned directness, where the grain elevator serves as a silent, vertical sentinel over the daily affairs of a place that values the steady, predictable output of the land above the noise of more frantic, urban centers.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Potawatomi Trail of Death - Island Grove Encampment (Monument) — 5.1 mi, 058° NE
Woodlawn Farm Underground RR (Historic Ruins) — 5.4 mi, 278° W
Nichols Park (Local Park) — 9.2 mi, 264° W
Illinois Theater (Cinema) — 10.1 mi, 274° W
Community Park (Local Park) — 10.2 mi, 270° W
Strawn Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 10.3 mi, 273° W
Prairie Land Heritage Museam (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 267° W
Lenz Field & Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 12.0 mi, 277° W
Potawatomi Trail of Death - McCoys Mill Encampment (Monument) — 14.3 mi, 074° E
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 14.8 mi, 102° E
Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.0 mi, 356° N
AMC Classic Springfield 12 (Cinema) — 16.6 mi, 083° E
Malibu Jack's (Theme Park) — 18.0 mi, 080° E
Lauterbach Man Statue (Attraction) — 19.2 mi, 082° E
DIM Art House (Gallery) — 19.3 mi, 075° E
Angel of Hope (Monument) — 19.3 mi, 077° E
Lincolns New Salem State Park (State Park) — 19.6 mi, 031° NE
Selvaggio Historic Arches (Attraction) — 20.3 mi, 088° E
Rotary Sundial (Attraction) — 20.3 mi, 088° E
Theater in the park at New Salem (Theatre) — 20.3 mi, 030° NE
Gallery 1624 (Gallery) — 20.4 mi, 078° E
Jake's Point Overlook (Viewpoint) — 20.7 mi, 350° N
White-tailed Deer (Public Artwork) — 20.8 mi, 076° E
Legacy Theatre (Theatre) — 20.9 mi, 077° E
Sanganois State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 26.1 mi, 333° NW
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 28.2 mi, 108° E
Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.4 mi, 300° NW · 7,396 acres
Beaver Dam State Park (State Park) — 35.2 mi, 176° S
Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 39.7 mi, 356° N · 5,262 acres

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