Explore Astoria, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Astoria, 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 Astoria.
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 | Astoria |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Fulton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.227545 |
| Longitude | -90.359568 |
| Population | 929 |
| Density | 612.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61501 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| County Seat | Lewistown |
| School District | Astoria Community Unit School District 1 |
Astoria occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and wide, broken only by the rhythmic geometry of corn and soybean fields. It lies 22.9 miles southeast of Macomb, IL (from Macomb, IL: bearing 134°T), and is situated 14.9 miles north-northeast of Beardstown. The earth here is deep and dark, a heavy loam that holds the heat of the summer sun long after the light begins to fade toward a bruised purple. Just a mile away, the sluggish waters of Elm Creek carve a thin, muddy vein through the landscape, providing a narrow corridor for wildlife amidst the agricultural grid. On clear days, the faint, hazy outline of Center Ridge remains a distant promise on the western horizon, a reminder of the tectonic patience that shaped this region long before the plow arrived. Visitors often linger in City Park, where the shade of mature trees offers a reprieve from the exposure of the open fields, and the air carries the scent of turned earth and dry, sun-warmed stalks.
Astoria emerged from the expansion of the nineteenth century, built on the steady, grueling labor of grain production and the commerce that follows a fertile harvest. The economy remains anchored to the soil, a cycle of planting and reaping that dictates the pace of every season and the temperament of the people who call Astoria home. Life here is measured by the slow accumulation of years, where the architecture of brick and limestone storefronts reflects a time when the railroad and the local mill defined the limits of the world. Seven miles out, the descent into Scab Hollow offers a sudden change in topography, a quiet limestone depression that feels entirely removed from the steady mechanical hum of the nearby combines. Even the water at Emmanuel Lake, resting three miles off, seems to participate in this stillness, mirroring the vast, cloud-streaked sky of a landscape that asks for little and expects only the persistence of the seasons.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Astoria, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.227545, -90.359568. 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 Astoria includes the ZIP code (61501), telephone area code (815), county seat of Fulton County (Lewistown), and school district assignment (Astoria Community Unit School District 1).
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. |