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Ashkum Illinois Map

Explore Ashkum, 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 Ashkum, Illinois

How to Use This Ashkum, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.880311
Longitude	-87.95504
Population	750
Density	346.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	60911
Area Code	630, 331
County Seat	Watseka
School District	Central Community Unit School District 4

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About Ashkum, Illinois

Ashkum is a locality in Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 750. The population density is 346.8 people per km². Ashkum is located at 40.8803°N, 87.9550°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ashkum is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 60911.

Ashkum occupies a flat, expansive plateau where the horizon stretches into an infinite line of black soil and sky. It lies 17.3 miles south-southwest of Kankakee, IL (from Kankakee, IL: bearing 196°T), and is situated 19.4 miles south-southwest of Bourbonnais. The landscape remains largely defined by the rhythmic geometry of agriculture, where Prairie Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the fields just two miles from the center. Within the village, Ashkum Village Park provides a quiet, green anchor for the residents, offering a patch of managed earth that contrasts with the vast, unyielding reach of the surrounding cropland. On clear days, the distant silhouette of Pilot Hill rises like a faint bruise against the pale blue, a singular elevation in a terrain that otherwise favors the horizontal. The quality of light here at dusk is heavy and golden, casting long, stark shadows across the rows of corn and soybeans that seem to pull the very heat from the earth.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the local economy, a legacy of the deep, fertile silt that first invited settlers to break the prairie sod. History here is written in the steel of grain elevators and the quiet persistence of family-owned operations that have weathered generations of changing seasons. Life in Ashkum moves with the deliberate pace of the planting and harvest cycles, a steady, seasonal endurance that ignores the frantic acceleration of the distant, grid-patterned metropolis to the north. Ten miles away, the waters of Kam Lake offer a rare, reflective stillness, a mirror for the clouds that drift over a geography defined more by its internal depth than by proximity to any distant landmark. The atmosphere is one of functional silence, where the hum of machinery and the rustle of wind through the stalks provide the only consistent soundtrack to the day.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ashkum Village Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 115° SE
Clifton Park (Local Park) — 3.8 mi, 018° N
Milk's Grove State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 307° NW
Crescent City Fairground (Local Recreation) — 7.0 mi, 141° SE
Willow Ridge Duck Club (Park) — 11.5 mi, 057° NE
Bonnies Prairie Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 11.9 mi, 107° E
Little Beaver Creek (Conservation Area) — 12.8 mi, 058° NE
Splash Valley Aquatic Park (Local Recreation) — 14.9 mi, 023° NE
Kankakee County Museum (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 014° N
Pottawatomi Campground Memorial (Monument) — 17.2 mi, 017° N
Soldiers Monument (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 017° N
Flag Memorial (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 017° N
Kankakee 002-07 (State Recreation Area) — 17.9 mi, 033° NE
Kankakee River State Park (State Conservation Area) — 18.9 mi, 007° N
Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge And Conservation Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.2 mi, 068° E · 132 acres
Sugar Creek (Attraction) — 27.5 mi, 125° SE
Route 66 Diners (Attraction) — 28.0 mi, 320° NW
Gardner Jail (Attraction) — 28.0 mi, 320° NW
Kankakee Sands Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 28.7 mi, 337° NW
Elvis (Attraction) — 29.7 mi, 334° NW
Braidwood Area Historical Society (Museum) — 29.9 mi, 333° NW
Wilmington Historical Society Building (Museum) — 31.2 mi, 341° N
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 31.8 mi, 351° N · 18k acres
Livingston County War Museum (Museum) — 35.2 mi, 270° W
Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum (Museum) — 35.2 mi, 270° W
Field Rotation (Public Artwork) — 41.0 mi, 018° N
Morris Guild Theater Playhouse (Theatre) — 41.1 mi, 323° NW
Lilian Fendig Gallery (Gallery) — 42.1 mi, 084° E
Prairie Arts Council (Arts Centre) — 42.1 mi, 084° E
Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 50.8 mi, 031° NE · 11k acres

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