Cable Illinois Map

About Cable, Illinois

Cable is a locality in Mercer County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 117. The population density is 39.8 people per km². Cable is located at 41.2839°N, 90.5074°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 61281.

Cable emerges from the flat, sprawling reaches of the Midwestern plains as a quiet intersection of earth and sky. It lies 15.3 miles south-southwest of East Moline, IL (from East Moline, IL: bearing 192°T), and is situated 17.0 miles south-southeast of Davenport. Camp Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the local topography, its seasonal pulse dictating the drainage of the surrounding fields and coloring the riparian soil a deep, dark loam. Only a mile distant, the waters of Frye Lake sit still and opaque, acting as a glass for the expansive, unhindered clouds that drift over this inland expanse. To the horizon, the land stretches out in a rhythmic monotony of corn and soybean stalks, a landscape defined by the heavy, silent weight of the prairie where the quality of light at dusk turns the stubble fields into a bruised, golden copper.

The history of Cable is rooted in the hard labor of the interior, where the extraction of resources once dictated the survival of those who settled the grid. While the industrial fervor of the past has softened into the slower, more deliberate pace of contemporary agricultural life, the legacy of the local economy remains tethered to the fertility of the dirt and the reach of the rail lines. Residents occasionally venture toward the Orion Sportsman Club seven miles away, finding in its managed acres a retreat from the persistent, open horizon. Though the Army Ridge Bluffs rise as a faint, jagged suggestion of elevation thirteen miles to the distance, the daily reality of Cable is found in the brick-and-limestone architecture that holds the heat of the summer sun long into the cooling evenings.

About This Cable Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cable, Illinois. Coordinates: 41.283924, -90.507355. 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 Cable includes the ZIP code (61281), telephone area code (847, 224), county seat of Mercer County (Aledo), and school district assignment (Sherrard Community Unit School District 200).

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.