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Belle Rive Illinois Map

Explore Belle Rive, 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 Rive, Illinois

How to Use This Belle Rive, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	38.232826
Longitude	-88.740615
Population	309
Density	116.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62810
Area Code	618
County Seat	Mount Vernon
School District	Opdyke-Belle Rive Community Consolidated School District 5

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About Belle Rive, Illinois

Belle Rive is a locality in Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 309. The population density is 116.3 people per km². Belle Rive is located at 38.2328°N, 88.7406°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Belle Rive is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62810.

Belle Rive emerges from the flat, hardworking expanse of southern Illinois as a collection of low-slung structures anchored by the quiet persistence of the surrounding prairie. It lies 10.6 miles east-southeast of Mount Vernon, IL (from Mount Vernon, IL: bearing 123°T), and is situated 19.0 miles north-northeast of Benton. The landscape here is defined by a vast, open horizon where the sky exerts a heavy, blue pressure on the fields of corn and soybeans, stretching out until the distant silhouette of Fleming Ridge hums against the haze of the far western edge. Just a mile from the center of Belle Rive, the water of Auxier Creek carves a thin, muddy ribbon through the silt, providing a slow-moving boundary that sustains the local woodlands. During the humid months, the air grows thick with the scent of damp earth and drying stalks, and the sun sets in a bruised, golden light that settles over the flatlands, turning the local vegetation into long, dark shadows that seem to anchor the earth firmly in place.

Belle Rive bears the marks of a history built on the steady, seasonal cycles of agriculture and the extraction of regional resources. The local economy remains tied to the soil and the maintenance of the sprawling Ten Mile Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area, which occupies the immediate landscape and draws those who seek the silence of the woods or the seasonal migration of waterfowl. Residents often look toward the Illinois Central Reservoir five miles distant when the late summer heat necessitates a reprieve from the dust of the fields. Daily life in Belle Rive moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has learned to wait on the harvest and the weather, favoring the endurance of simple, brick-fronted buildings over the frantic pace of larger hubs. It is a place where the social fabric is stitched together by the shared knowledge of the land, a quiet geography that measures its own progress in the steady, quiet growth of the crops and the seasonal turning of the prairie grasses.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ten Mile Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.1 mi, 120° SE
Mt. Vernon Game Propagation Center (State Conservation Area) — 7.0 mi, 272° W
Granada (Theatre) — 10.6 mi, 304° NW
Rend Lake (Recreation Area) — 10.9 mi, 226° SW
Waterfowl Refuge Observation Stand (Viewpoint) — 10.9 mi, 227° SW
Unique Stones (Public Artwork) — 11.2 mi, 298° NW
Lincoln Park (Local Recreation) — 11.2 mi, 292° W
War Memorial (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 298° NW
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 11.8 mi, 304° NW
Carl L Schweinfurth Museum and Interpretive Center (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 305° NW
Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 14.4 mi, 223° SW
Fishin' Hole Amphitheater (Theatre) — 17.2 mi, 218° SW
George Harrison (Monument) — 19.0 mi, 211° SW
Miner Memorial (Monument) — 19.7 mi, 240° SW
Wayne County Historical Museum (Museum) — 23.0 mi, 064° NE
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 34.2 mi, 356° N
David Nave Insurance (Attraction) — 35.6 mi, 163° S
Looking Glass Enterprises (Attraction) — 35.7 mi, 163° S
Whites Florist (Attraction) — 35.7 mi, 163° S
Saline County Abulance (Attraction) — 35.8 mi, 164° S
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.0 mi, 200° S · 91k acres
Pyramid State Recreation Area (State Park) — 37.0 mi, 248° W
Carterville Heritage Museum (Museum) — 37.4 mi, 209° SW
Dunbar School (Historic Ruins) — 38.2 mi, 170° S
Allen Family Farmhouse (Historic Ruins) — 39.0 mi, 170° S
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 39.9 mi, 182° S · 7,712 acres
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 41.5 mi, 170° S · 274k acres
Burden Falls Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 43.5 mi, 173° S · 3,740 acres
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 45.5 mi, 203° SW · 4,387 acres
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 52.5 mi, 083° E · 20k acres

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