Explore Brimfield, 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 Brimfield, 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 Brimfield.
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 | Brimfield |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Peoria County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.838926 |
| Longitude | -89.886498 |
| Population | 778 |
| Density | 365.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61517 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| County Seat | Peoria |
| School District | Brimfield Community Unit School District 309 |
Brimfield emerges from the vast, flat expanse of the Illinois prairie as a quiet intersection of sky and soil, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the setting sun in a single, lingering swallow of amber light. It lies 18.5 miles west-northwest of Peoria, IL (from Peoria, IL: bearing 303°T), and is situated 5.9 miles northeast of Elmwood. The landscape surrounding Brimfield remains defined by the rhythmic geometry of agriculture, where the earth yields to the quiet passage of Walnut Creek, a waterway that cuts through the loess soil with a steady, unassuming persistence. On clear days, the distant silhouette of Hoxie Ridge asserts a faint, jagged pressure against the western sky, while the immediate geography offers the sheltered greenery of Brimfield Community Park, a space where the air often carries the scent of turned earth and drying stalks. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the land dips toward the gentle depression of Quail Meadow or holds the stillness of South Pond, creating a topography that prizes the horizontal over the vertical.
Brimfield maintains a character forged by the steady hands of those who work the black, fertile loam, an economy that remains deeply tethered to the cycles of the grain elevator and the seasonal labor of the harvest. History here is marked not by grand monuments, but by the slow accumulation of generations who recognized that the quality of life is found in the reliability of the local schoolhouse and the predictable turn of the seasons. The architecture of the older storefronts and houses speaks to a mid-century sturdiness, a pragmatic grace that favors brick and simple lines over unnecessary ornament. Life in Brimfield moves with the deliberate tempo of a place that understands the gravity of the land, where the evening commute is merely the drive from the field to the porch, and the social fabric is held together by the quiet, daily recognition of neighbors who share the same vast, open sky.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Brimfield, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.838926, -89.886498. 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 Brimfield includes the ZIP code (61517), telephone area code (815), county seat of Peoria County (Peoria), and school district assignment (Brimfield Community Unit School District 309).
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. |