Cherry Illinois Map

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.

About This Cherry Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cherry, Illinois. Coordinates: 41.426979, -89.213419. 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 Cherry includes the ZIP code (61317, 61312), telephone area code (815), county seat of Bureau County (Princeton), and school district assignment (Dimmick Community Consolidated School District 175).

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.