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Belle Prairie City Illinois Map

Explore Belle Prairie City, 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 Belle Prairie City, Illinois

How to Use This Belle Prairie City, Illinois Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Belle Prairie City, 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 Belle Prairie City.

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	Belle Prairie City
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Hamilton County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.222548
Longitude	-88.555331
Population	49
Density	43.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62828
Area Code	618
County Seat	McLeansboro
School District	Hamilton County Community Unit School District 10

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About Belle Prairie City, Illinois

Belle Prairie City is a locality in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 49. The population density is 43.2 people per km². Belle Prairie City is located at 38.2225°N, 88.5553°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Belle Prairie City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62828.

Belle Prairie City commands a quiet expanse of the Illinois interior, where the horizon stretches flat and wide, broken only by the deliberate geometry of corn and soybean fields. It lies 20.0 miles east-southeast of Mount Vernon, IL (from Mount Vernon, IL: bearing 109°T), and is situated 9.0 miles north of McLeansboro. The land leans toward the gentle meanders of Black Branch, a waterway that marks the rhythm of the soil two miles from the center, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Fleming Ridge hums against the western sky. In the transition between the cultivated fields and the wilder tracts of the Ten Mile Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area, the air carries a distinct scent of turned earth and drying stalks. At dusk, the light here possesses a heavy, amber quality, casting long shadows that seem to anchor the architecture of Belle Prairie City to the very bedrock of the prairie.

Agriculture remains the singular pulse of the regional economy, a tradition forged by settlers who recognized the fertility of this inland basin long ago. The community maintains a steady, deliberate pace, largely defined by the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that dictate the flow of goods and labor. Residents often seek the stillness of Olan Bullock Lake, a six-mile refuge where the water reflects the expansive, unhurried clouds of the Midwest. Life here is not marked by the clamor of industry, but by the quiet maintenance of a landscape that has provided for its people for generations, ensuring that the character of the place remains as sturdy and unadorned as the grain elevators rising above the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ten Mile Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 112° E
Karcher's Post Oak Woods Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 254° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 8.7 mi, 175° S
Sam And Florence Atkinson Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 9.7 mi, 022° N
Wayne County Historical Museum (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 045° NE
Lincoln Monument (Monument) — 15.3 mi, 045° NE
War Memorial (Monument) — 15.3 mi, 045° NE
Rend Lake (Recreation Area) — 19.2 mi, 249° W
Waterfowl Refuge Observation Stand (Viewpoint) — 19.2 mi, 249° W
Granada (Theatre) — 20.0 mi, 289° W
Unique Stones (Public Artwork) — 20.8 mi, 287° W
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 21.1 mi, 290° W
Carl L Schweinfurth Museum and Interpretive Center (Museum) — 21.4 mi, 291° W
Fishin' Hole Amphitheater (Theatre) — 24.3 mi, 238° SW
George Harrison (Monument) — 25.2 mi, 232° SW
David Nave Insurance (Attraction) — 33.4 mi, 179° S
Harmonie State Park (State Park) — 33.4 mi, 110° E
Whites Florist (Attraction) — 33.4 mi, 180° S
Looking Glass Enterprises (Attraction) — 33.5 mi, 180° S
Harrisburg Daily Register (Attraction) — 33.5 mi, 179° S
Bieker-Wilson Village Site (Historic Ruins) — 33.5 mi, 129° SE
The Atheneum & Visitors Center at Historic New Harmony (Museum) — 34.1 mi, 100° E
Archaeological Dig (Historic Ruins) — 34.2 mi, 100° E
New Harmony Contemporary Gallery & Shop (Gallery) — 34.3 mi, 101° E
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 36.9 mi, 168° S · 274k acres
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 37.7 mi, 159° S · 7,712 acres
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 40.9 mi, 214° SW · 91k acres
Garden Of The Gods Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 42.0 mi, 168° S · 3,978 acres
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 42.6 mi, 080° E · 20k acres
Burden Falls Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 42.8 mi, 187° S · 3,740 acres

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