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Banner Illinois Map

Explore Banner, 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 Banner, Illinois

How to Use This Banner, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.516983
Longitude	-89.908446
Population	169
Density	50.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	61520
Area Code	815
County Seat	Lewistown
School District	Canton Union School District 66

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About Banner, Illinois

Banner is a locality in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 169. The population density is 50.6 people per km². Banner is located at 40.5170°N, 89.9084°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Banner is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61520.

Banner occupies a quiet stretch of land where the persistent Copperas Creek carves its path through the low-lying terrain, defining the local topography with its steady, muddy flow. It lies 7.2 miles east-southeast of Canton, IL (from Canton, IL: bearing 113°T), and is situated 14.5 miles west-southwest of Pekin. To the north, the elevation rises toward the modest heights of Hoxie Ridge, while the earth dips into the quiet, shadowed depression of Baker Hollow just a mile away. The landscape is marked by the sprawling Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area, a vast expanse of reclaimed wetlands that anchors the horizon and attracts the migratory pulse of the seasons. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the land flattens into the expansive, fertile plains typical of the region, where the light at dusk stretches long and thin across the soil, turning the atmosphere a muted, bruised violet that clings to the stalks of late-summer vegetation.

Banner remains a place shaped by the industry of the earth, its identity inextricably linked to the labor of extraction and the subsequent return of the land to a wilder state. Where heavy machinery once rearranged the geography for coal, the water now reclaims the pits, creating a complex, flooded mosaic within the Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area that serves as both a memory of commerce and a sanctuary for wildlife. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the interior plains, far removed from the clamor of the distant metropolises, where the residents observe the shifting seasons by the subtle changes in the water levels of nearby Miserable Lake. The economy has transitioned from the grit of the mines to a quieter reliance on the land's natural recovery, leaving the inhabitants to navigate a daily existence defined by the wide, open sky and the enduring, unadorned character of the Illinois soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.2 mi, 107° E
Prairie Hills Wetland Reserve (Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 180° S
Rice Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 180° S
Banner Marsh Fish and Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 2.8 mi, 060° NE
Spring Lake (State Recreation Area) — 3.7 mi, 155° SE
Canton Lake (Local Park) — 4.5 mi, 313° NW
Canton Waterworks (State Recreation Area) — 4.5 mi, 313° NW
Canton Youth Acres (Private Recreation) — 5.1 mi, 318° NW
Jake Wolf Memorial Fish Hatchery (Museum) — 6.1 mi, 172° S
Canton Country Club (Local Recreation) — 7.8 mi, 306° NW
Lakeland Park (Local Park) — 8.1 mi, 295° NW
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 8.3 mi, 192° S · 13k acres
Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge Fee (Conservation Area) — 11.4 mi, 214° SW
Farmington Historical Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 338° N
Tazewell County Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 14.1 mi, 075° E
29th U.s. Colored Infantry Memorial (Monument) — 14.1 mi, 075° E
Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.6 mi, 220° SW · 5,262 acres
Sun Tracker (Public Artwork) — 14.9 mi, 078° E
Sundance (Attraction) — 14.9 mi, 078° E
Dragon Stadium (Stadium) — 15.3 mi, 078° E
Ogden-Fettie Site (Historic Ruins) — 16.4 mi, 222° SW
Rockwell Mound (Historic Ruins) — 16.8 mi, 209° SW
Wildlife Prairie Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 17.5 mi, 031° NE
The Pioneers (Monument) — 18.3 mi, 351° N
Lorado Taft Museum (Museum) — 18.4 mi, 351° N
Studios on Sheridan (Gallery) — 20.3 mi, 052° NE
Arts Partners (Gallery) — 20.4 mi, 052° NE
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria (Arts Centre) — 20.4 mi, 055° NE
Giant Screen Theater (Cinema) — 20.5 mi, 054° NE
Dome Planetarium (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 054° NE

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