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Bulpitt Illinois Map

Explore Bulpitt, 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 Bulpitt, Illinois

How to Use This Bulpitt, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.591716
Longitude	-89.423981
Population	212
Density	1186.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62517
Area Code	217
County Seat	Taylorville
School District	South Fork School District 14

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About Bulpitt, Illinois

Bulpitt is a locality in Christian County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 212. The population density is 1186.3 people per km². Bulpitt is located at 39.5917°N, 89.4240°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bulpitt is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62517.

Bulpitt occupies a quiet stretch of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon pulls wide and low, punctuated only by the vertical reach of grain silos and the occasional stand of hardwoods. It lies 7.5 miles west-northwest of Taylorville, IL (from Taylorville, IL: bearing 293°T), and is situated 8.3 miles east of Pawnee. The land here carries the flat, heavy silence of the plains, broken only by the movement of air across the tall grasses that define the Ivarene Wild Life Sanctuary. A mile to the east, the waters of Sangchris Lake catch the late afternoon light, turning a bruised, metallic violet as the sun retreats behind the distant, hazy silhouette of Sand Ridge. Clear Creek winds through the local terrain, a narrow, persistent vein of movement that shapes the drainage of the surrounding fields and feeds the moisture into the soil, grounding Bulpitt in a landscape that feels both expansive and deeply intimate.

Bulpitt emerged from the earth’s own reserves, its early identity forged by the coal industry that once dictated the pulse of the local economy. The legacy of those extraction years remains in the town’s layout and the sturdy, unadorned architecture of its older dwellings, which seem to hold the weight of a century of labor. While the heavy machinery of the past has long since gone quiet, the rhythm of the place remains dictated by the turn of the seasons and the cycle of the surrounding agricultural land. Life in Bulpitt maintains a deliberate pace, colored by the seasonal transition of the corn and soybean crops that stretch toward the sky. It is a place where the history of the coal miner and the farmer blend into a singular, enduring character, defined more by the persistence of its people than by the grand claims of the outside world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ivarene Wild Life Sanctuary (Conservation Area) — 0.1 mi, 360° N
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 2.4 mi, 334° NW
Jaynes Park (Local Park) — 6.2 mi, 118° SE
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 7.3 mi, 112° E
Taylorville Cinema (Cinema) — 7.4 mi, 113° SE
Christian County Coal Mine Museum (Museum) — 7.5 mi, 113° SE
Taylorville Chautaugua Auditorium (Theatre) — 7.7 mi, 118° SE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 8.3 mi, 276° W
The Muni (Theatre) — 13.3 mi, 321° NW
Trutter Museum (Museum) — 13.3 mi, 311° NW
Lincoln Memorial (Monument) — 14.0 mi, 313° NW
Impermanent Column (Public Artwork) — 14.2 mi, 313° NW
War Memorial (Monument) — 15.1 mi, 005° N
AMC Showplace 8 (Cinema) — 15.4 mi, 321° NW
Rotary Sundial (Attraction) — 15.7 mi, 308° NW
Selvaggio Historic Arches (Attraction) — 15.7 mi, 308° NW
Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 318° NW
Margery Adams Wildlife Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 17.9 mi, 324° NW
Lauterbach Man Statue (Attraction) — 18.1 mi, 311° NW
Gallery 1624 (Gallery) — 18.3 mi, 316° NW
Elijah Iles House (Museum) — 18.4 mi, 320° NW
Vachel Lindsay Home (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 320° NW
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 19.0 mi, 285° W
Calamus Lake State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 20.0 mi, 036° NE
Carpenter Park (Local Recreation) — 21.5 mi, 330° NW
Carpenter Park Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 21.7 mi, 329° NW
Edward R. Madigan State Park (State Park) — 35.1 mi, 003° N
Beaver Dam State Park (State Park) — 38.6 mi, 228° SW
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.5 mi, 333° NW · 13k acres
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 65.2 mi, 217° SW · 32k acres

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