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Central City Illinois Map

Explore Central City, 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 Central City, Illinois

How to Use This Central City, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	38.548549
Longitude	-89.128298
Population	1,098
Density	750.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	60407, 62801
Area Code	708, 618
County Seat	Morris
School District	Centralia High School District 200

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About Central City, Illinois

Central City is a locality in Grundy County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,098. The population density is 750.3 people per km². Central City is located at 38.5485°N, 89.1283°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Central City is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 60407, 62801.

Central City emerges from the flat, open expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a heavy, shifting sky. It lies 11.0 miles southeast of Morris, IL (from Morris, IL: bearing 139°T), and is situated 4.1 miles west-southwest of Braidwood. The land here is defined by the steady, low-lying relief of the interior plains, broken only by the distant, muted silhouette of Sand Ridge (historic) against the western light. Two miles to the east, the Mazon River cuts a quiet, meandering path through the earth, its banks often fringed with the tall, dry grasses that define the local flora. Nearby, the Braidwood Power Plant Cooling Pond mirrors the vastness of the heavens, its still surface providing a stark, artificial contrast to the wilder, swaying fields that roll outward toward the horizon.

Central City carries the quiet weight of a regional history rooted in the extraction and movement of resources that once powered the wider state. The rhythm of daily life here remains tethered to the land and the rail lines, with the Braceville Railroad Prairie serving as a thin, protected ribbon of native growth that reminds residents of the landscape’s original character. Economic activity lingers in the echoes of industrial transition, where the legacy of coal and infrastructure meets the persistent, slow labor of the surrounding fields. At dusk, the light catches the metallic edges of the grain silos and the long shadows of the prairie, grounding Central City in a stillness that feels both ancient and entirely of its own making.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Central City Lions Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 129° SE
Foundation Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 142° SE
Nike Ajax Missile (Monument) — 1.7 mi, 222° SW
T-33 Shooting Star (Monument) — 1.8 mi, 232° SW
Raccoon Lake Park (Local Recreation) — 3.0 mi, 109° E
Third Principal Meridian (Monument) — 5.2 mi, 189° S
Carlyle Lake (Recreation Area) — 9.1 mi, 316° NW
East Fork Management Unit State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.8 mi, 348° N
Kaskaskia River - Carlyle (Conservation Area) — 11.9 mi, 281° W
Eldon Hazlet (State Recreation Area) — 12.8 mi, 313° NW
Party Cove (Attraction) — 14.1 mi, 325° NW
Carlyle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 18.0 mi, 354° N
Carl L Schweinfurth Museum and Interpretive Center (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 143° SE
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 18.9 mi, 144° SE
Welcome to Nashville Mural (Public Artwork) — 19.7 mi, 224° SW
Granada (Theatre) — 20.1 mi, 142° SE
Stephen A. Forbest State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 22.1 mi, 055° NE
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 22.4 mi, 057° NE
Lookout Point (Viewpoint) — 22.9 mi, 213° SW
Greenville University Factory Theatre (Theatre) — 27.8 mi, 327° NW
Richard W. Bock Sculpture Museum (Museum) — 28.2 mi, 328° NW
Vandalia State House State Historic Site (Museum) — 28.6 mi, 004° N
Fayette County Museum (Museum) — 28.6 mi, 004° N
Kaskaskia Dragon (Attraction) — 29.4 mi, 001° N
Pyramid State Recreation Area (State Park) — 35.9 mi, 205° SW
Clay County Historical Society (Museum) — 37.2 mi, 065° NE
Showtime Cinemas 6 (Cinema) — 42.1 mi, 228° SW
Scenic Red Caboose (Attraction) — 42.4 mi, 274° W
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 52.1 mi, 201° S · 274k acres
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 54.0 mi, 180° S · 91k acres

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