Arlington Illinois Map
Explore Arlington, 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 Arlington, Illinois
How to Use This Arlington, Illinois Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Arlington, 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 Arlington.
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 | Arlington |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Bureau County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.473645 |
| Longitude | -89.249253 |
| Population | 169 |
| Density | 165.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61312 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| County Seat | Princeton |
| School District | La Moille Community Unit School District 303 |
About Arlington, Illinois
Arlington is a locality in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 169. The population density is 165.2 people per km². Arlington is located at 41.4736°N, 89.2493°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Arlington is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61312.Arlington emerges from the flat, open expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vault of heavy, shifting sky. It lies 22.9 miles west-northwest of Ottawa, IL (from Ottawa, IL: bearing 293°T), and is situated 8.5 miles southwest of Mendota. The land here holds the quiet patience of deep soil, interrupted only by the modest, winding path of East Bureau Creek, which carves a shallow, verdant ribbon through the surrounding fields. To the west, the distant silhouette of High Ridge offers a faint, jagged punctuation to the otherwise level earth, while the air carries the dry, honest scent of turning stalks and cooling dusk. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the landscape opens into a vast patchwork of seasonal color, where the light at sunset catches the stubble of the fields, turning the gray earth into a temporary, glowing bronze.
Arlington maintains a steady, deliberate pace, anchored by the long cycles of the agrarian economy that have defined this region for generations. Life here feels tethered to the rhythmic demands of the harvest and the quiet commerce of a place that values continuity over the frantic pulse of the city. While the stillness of the countryside dominates, the nearby Park provides a sheltered space for the quiet observation of local flora, a rare pocket of untamed growth amidst the systematic order of the surrounding farmsteads. Even as the seasons shift and the frost settles over the plains, Arlington remains a place where the history of the soil is held in high regard, grounding the people in a geography that is as predictable as it is expansive.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Park (Local Park) — 3.5 mi, 149° SE
- Cherry Mine Disaster (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 149° SE
- Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.7 mi, 166° S
- Birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok (Attraction) — 8.6 mi, 093° E
- AMC Classic Peru Mall 8 (Cinema) — 10.3 mi, 142° SE
- Lake DePue State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 190° S
- Stage 212 (Theatre) — 12.8 mi, 142° SE
- Bureau County Historical Museum (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 237° SW
- Hennepin Canal (State Recreation Area) — 13.7 mi, 202° S
- Starved Rock Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 15.3 mi, 134° SE
- Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 16.0 mi, 137° SE
- Saint Louis Canyon (Viewpoint) — 16.6 mi, 130° SE
- Plum Island Site (Historic Ruins) — 16.8 mi, 128° SE
- Outside Amphitheather (Theatre) — 17.0 mi, 129° SE
- Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.0 mi, 192° S · 13k acres
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About This Arlington Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Arlington, Illinois. Coordinates: 41.473645, -89.249253. 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 Arlington includes the ZIP code (61312), telephone area code (815), county seat of Bureau County (Princeton), and school district assignment (La Moille Community Unit School District 303).
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. |
