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Cherry Illinois Map

Explore Cherry, 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 Cherry, Illinois

How to Use This Cherry, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	41.426979
Longitude	-89.213419
Population	435
Density	326.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	61317, 61312
Area Code	815
County Seat	Princeton
School District	Dimmick Community Consolidated School District 175

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About Cherry, Illinois

Cherry is a locality in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 435. The population density is 326.8 people per km². Cherry is located at 41.4270°N, 89.2134°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cherry is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 61317, 61312.

Cherry exists as a quiet accumulation of brick and frame structures anchored to the flat, expansive horizon of the Illinois prairie. It lies 20.0 miles west-northwest of Ottawa, IL (from Ottawa, IL: bearing 286°T), and is situated 8.1 miles north-northwest of Peru. Negro Creek carves a shallow, unassuming path through the landscape nearby, its waters pulling away from the built environment toward the wider drainage of the region. To the east, the silhouette of High Ridge offers a distant, muted boundary against the sky, while the local Park provides a modest expanse of green space for the residents to gather. The light here at dusk settles heavily upon the fields, turning the long rows of soil into deep, velvet ribbons of brown and gold that stretch toward the edge of the world.

Cherry carries the weight of a past defined by the extraction of coal, a heritage that lingers in the stilled machinery and the layout of streets originally meant to serve the industry. The economy has long since shifted away from the dark, subterranean labor that once drew families from across the Atlantic, leaving behind a resilient, understated character that favors neighborly persistence over rapid growth. While the silence of the plains dominates, the proximity of North Gypsum Pond and the gentle basin of Wolf Hollow remind those who live here that the terrain is subtly shaped by forces older than the mine shafts. Life in Cherry proceeds with a deliberate, steady cadence, measured not by the clock, but by the slow rotation of the seasons across the vast, open sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 358° N
Cherry Mine Disaster (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 002° N
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 3.2 mi, 176° S
Spring Creek Golf Course (Park) — 4.4 mi, 171° S
AMC Classic Peru Mall 8 (Cinema) — 6.7 mi, 138° SE
Veteran'S Memorial Park (Local Recreation) — 6.8 mi, 146° SE
Mitchell's Grove State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.0 mi, 116° SE
Girl Scouts (Private Recreation) — 7.2 mi, 199° S
Birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok (Attraction) — 7.2 mi, 068° E
West End Gun Club (Park) — 7.6 mi, 196° S
Lake DePue State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 206° SW
Stage 212 (Theatre) — 9.2 mi, 138° SE
Hennepin Canal (State Recreation Area) — 11.8 mi, 217° SW
Starved Rock Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 11.8 mi, 130° SE
Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 12.4 mi, 133° SE
Saint Louis Canyon (Viewpoint) — 13.1 mi, 125° SE
Plum Island Site (Historic Ruins) — 13.4 mi, 122° SE
Outside Amphitheather (Theatre) — 13.6 mi, 123° SE
Bureau County Historical Museum (Museum) — 13.7 mi, 253° W
Buffalo Rock State Park (State Park) — 16.3 mi, 116° SE
Earlville History Museum (Museum) — 18.8 mi, 053° NE
Boy Scout of America (Public Artwork) — 19.1 mi, 109° E
Remembering the Radium Girls (Monument) — 19.9 mi, 106° E
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas (Monument) — 20.0 mi, 105° E
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.4 mi, 198° S · 13k acres
ATSF Depot (Attraction) — 29.1 mi, 136° SE
The Next Picture Show (Gallery) — 32.0 mi, 334° NW
F-105D Thunderchief (Attraction) — 32.7 mi, 333° NW
Tampico Area Historical Society and Museum (Museum) — 32.8 mi, 296° NW
SVCC Art Gallery (Gallery) — 33.5 mi, 324° NW

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