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Burnt Prairie Illinois Map

Explore Burnt Prairie, 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 Burnt Prairie, Illinois

How to Use This Burnt Prairie, Illinois Map

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

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	Burnt Prairie
State	Illinois (IL)
County	White County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.251714
Longitude	-88.261432
Population	36
Density	182.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62820
Area Code	618
County Seat	Carmi
School District	Fairfield Community High School District 225

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About Burnt Prairie, Illinois

Burnt Prairie is a locality in White County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 36. The population density is 182.9 people per km². Burnt Prairie is located at 38.2517°N, 88.2614°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Burnt Prairie is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62820.

Burnt Prairie emerges from the flat, open expanse of the Illinois interior as a quiet intersection of sky and soil. It lies 35.1 miles east of Mount Vernon, IL (from Mount Vernon, IL: bearing 97°T), and is situated 12.4 miles north-northwest of Carmi. Sunlight stretches across the vast fields of corn and soybean, casting long, lean shadows that emphasize the subtle, rhythmic swells of the terrain. A mile away, the quiet flow of Prairie Creek cuts through the earth, a thin vein of water that sustains the surrounding brush and woodland. Beyond the immediate fields, the horizon holds the faint, blurred silhouette of Pig Ridge, a reminder of the land’s deeper geological age. The Alvah Borah State Habitat Area serves as a sanctuary nearby, where the native grasses and wild timber offer a stark, uncultivated contrast to the orderly lines of modern agriculture.

Burnt Prairie remains a place defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons and the enduring legacy of those who first broke this sod. The local economy stays tethered to the productivity of the black, fertile earth, grounding the residents in a cycle of planting and harvest that has persisted for generations. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a rural landscape, where the social connections are forged in the shared labor of the fields and the quietude of the nearby Briar Patch Lake. Even as the modern world speeds forward, the character of Burnt Prairie rests in the simplicity of its surroundings, a landscape where the evening air carries the scent of damp soil and the distant, cooling promise of a coming frost.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Alvah Borah State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 041° NE
Little Wabash River (Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 031° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 10.0 mi, 324° NW
Wayne County Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.2 mi, 329° NW
War Memorial (Monument) — 10.3 mi, 330° NW
Lincoln Monument (Monument) — 10.3 mi, 330° NW
Sam And Florence Atkinson Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 11.2 mi, 332° NW
Ten Mile Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.4 mi, 257° W
The Atheneum & Visitors Center at Historic New Harmony (Museum) — 19.4 mi, 115° SE
Archaeological Dig (Historic Ruins) — 19.5 mi, 115° SE
Peace Arch (Public Artwork) — 19.5 mi, 115° SE
Paul Tillich Memorial (Monument) — 19.6 mi, 115° SE
Murphy Auditorium & USI New Harmony Theatre (Theatre) — 19.6 mi, 116° SE
New Harmony Contemporary Gallery & Shop (Gallery) — 19.6 mi, 115° SE
Hoosier Salon (Gallery) — 19.6 mi, 115° SE
Maximillian Bodmer Exhibit (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 115° SE
George Keppler House (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 115° SE
1830 Owen House Jacquess Parlor (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 115° SE
Thrall's Opera House (Theatre) — 19.7 mi, 115° SE
Harmonie State Park (State Park) — 20.4 mi, 131° SE
Beall Woods State Park (Nature Reserve) — 24.6 mi, 073° E
Beall Woods Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 24.9 mi, 073° E
Bieker-Wilson Village Site (Historic Ruins) — 25.2 mi, 156° SE
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.6 mi, 079° E · 20k acres
Gibson Lake Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 27.0 mi, 075° E
Waterfowl Refuge Observation Stand (Viewpoint) — 35.1 mi, 256° W
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 37.2 mi, 183° S · 7,712 acres
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 37.5 mi, 183° S · 274k acres
Garden Of The Gods Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 43.7 mi, 188° S · 3,978 acres
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 52.9 mi, 227° SW · 91k acres

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