Explore Berlin, 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 Berlin, 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 Berlin.
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 | Berlin |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Sangamon County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.758939 |
| Longitude | -89.903164 |
| Population | 141 |
| Density | 61.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62670 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| County Seat | Springfield |
| School District | New Berlin CUSD 16 |
Berlin maintains a quiet posture upon the flat, expansive prairie where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 12.0 miles west-northwest of Chatham, IL (from Chatham, IL: bearing 299°T), and is situated 6.8 miles southwest of Farmingdale. The horizon here stretches in a muted, endless line, broken only by the sharp silhouettes of grain elevators and the occasional stand of timber that marks the path of Spring Creek. During the long, golden hours of late afternoon, the light turns a deep, bruised honey, casting shadows that pull the tall grasses into stark relief against the dark, fertile loam. The landscape feels stripped of pretense, a place where the wind carries the dry, rhythmic whisper of corn stalks and the distant, cooling promise of Sudduth Lake, which sits far enough away to remain a secret kept by the surrounding fields.
Berlin traces its modest lineage to the slow, deliberate expansion of the nineteenth-century rail lines that brought commerce to the heart of the plains. The economy remains tethered to the soil, defined by the seasonal pulse of planting and harvest that dictates the pace of every driveway and storefront. While Sand Ridge looms as a faint, hazy suggestion on the distant horizon, the immediate life of Berlin is one of brick-and-mortar endurance, where small-town industry survives in the shadow of the larger, grid-patterned world. Residents often travel toward the greenery of Centennial Park to find a reprieve from the relentless geometry of the farmland, yet they always return to the steady, predictable hum of a place where history is measured not in monuments, but in the recurring cycles of the land.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Berlin, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.758939, -89.903164. 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 Berlin includes the ZIP code (62670), telephone area code (217), county seat of Sangamon County (Springfield), and school district assignment (New Berlin CUSD 16).
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. |