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Auburn Illinois Map

Explore Auburn, 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 Auburn, Illinois

How to Use This Auburn, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.5763
Longitude	-89.743982
Population	4,574
Density	428.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62615
Area Code	217
County Seat	Springfield
School District	Auburn Community Unit School District 10

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About Auburn, Illinois

Auburn is a locality in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,574. The population density is 428.2 people per km². Auburn is located at 39.5763°N, 89.7440°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Auburn is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62615.

Auburn anchors itself firmly within the vast, level expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a sky that seems to possess more depth than the earth beneath it. It lies 6.2 miles south-southwest of Chatham, IL (from Chatham, IL: bearing 201°T), and is situated 6.4 miles north of Virden. The landscape is defined by the steady, rhythmic geometry of agriculture, where fields of corn and soybeans create a textured quilt that changes color with the slow turning of the seasons. Panther Creek snakes through the nearby terrain, a quiet thread of water that marks the passage of time against the stillness of the black, fertile soil. Within the boundaries of Auburn, Union Park provides a central green space where the shade of mature trees offers a reprieve from the unfiltered intensity of the midday sun, grounding the neighborhood in a quiet, enduring permanence.

Auburn emerged from the expansion of the mid-nineteenth century, growing in tandem with the iron veins of the railroad that connected these flat plains to the wider world. The local economy remains tethered to the productivity of the surrounding acreage, a legacy of labor that persists in the brick storefronts and the steady, unsentimental pace of daily life. While the distant silhouette of Sand Ridge occasionally catches the light on the horizon, the focus here remains on the immediate work of the harvest and the maintenance of a stable, Midwestern existence. Residents often travel the short distance to Virden Recreation Club Lake when the heat of late summer settles heavy over the plains, finding in its calm surface a reflection of the same quietude that defines the character of Auburn itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Union Park (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 004° N
Pohlod Park (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 029° NE
Veterans Park (Local Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 002° N
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 2.2 mi, 281° W
Oak Leaf Country Club (Park) — 9.4 mi, 198° S
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 11.2 mi, 085° E
Rotary Sundial (Attraction) — 11.7 mi, 024° NE
Selvaggio Historic Arches (Attraction) — 11.8 mi, 023° NE
Route 66 Drive In (Cinema) — 11.8 mi, 017° N
Trutter Museum (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 035° NE
AMC Classic Springfield 12 (Cinema) — 12.4 mi, 004° N
Lincoln Memorial (Monument) — 12.5 mi, 032° NE
Impermanent Column (Public Artwork) — 12.6 mi, 032° NE
Goode's Woods State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.3 mi, 230° SW
Malibu Jack's (Theme Park) — 13.4 mi, 009° N
Lauterbach Man Statue (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 015° N
Potawatomi Trail of Death - McCoys Mill Encampment (Monument) — 14.3 mi, 352° N
The Muni (Theatre) — 14.4 mi, 037° NE
Gallery 1624 (Gallery) — 14.9 mi, 017° N
Angel of Hope (Monument) — 15.0 mi, 012° N
Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 021° N
DIM Art House (Gallery) — 15.6 mi, 011° N
Legacy Theatre (Theatre) — 15.8 mi, 017° N
Vachel Lindsay Home (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 018° N
Elijah Iles House (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 019° N
Carpenter Park Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 20.3 mi, 016° N
Lincolns New Salem State Park (State Park) — 27.2 mi, 351° N
Beaver Dam State Park (State Park) — 27.4 mi, 205° SW
Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.9 mi, 294° NW · 7,396 acres
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 55.6 mi, 204° SW · 32k acres

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