Chesterfield Illinois Map

About Chesterfield, Illinois

Chesterfield is a locality in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 170. The population density is 121.3 people per km². Chesterfield is located at 39.2550°N, 90.0632°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Chesterfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62630.

Chesterfield emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Illinois prairie as a quiet intersection of sky and soil. It lies 21.7 miles north-northeast of Godfrey, IL (from Godfrey, IL: bearing 18°T), and is situated 9.9 miles west of Carlinville. Sunlight stretches across the vast fields of corn and soybeans, casting long, lean shadows that emphasize the subtle, rhythmic swells of the terrain. A mile away, Bear Creek carves a thin, wooded vein through the earth, its banks providing a cool, sheltered refuge from the relentless summer heat. Further out, the landscape opens into the wide, quiet expanse of Hagaman Marsh, where the air holds a heavy, damp stillness, and the distant, hazy silhouette of Pea Ridge offers the only vertical relief against an otherwise infinite sky.

Chesterfield carries the weight of an agricultural heritage that once defined the economic pulse of this region, where the labor of the seasons dictates the pace of daily existence. The local character is tempered by a stoic endurance, shaped by generations who watched the seasons turn from the harvest to the stark, gray quiet of winter. Though the proximity of Jacobie School serves as a quiet reminder of the community’s focus on its youth, the rhythm of life remains tethered to the cycles of the land. In the soft light of dusk, the grain silos stand as stark, functional monuments to a trade that remains the bedrock of Chesterfield, grounding its identity in the deep, dark loam of the Midwestern plain.

About This Chesterfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chesterfield, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.255046, -90.063163. 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 Chesterfield includes the ZIP code (62630), telephone area code (217), county seat of Macoupin County (Carlinville), and school district assignment (Carlinville Community Unit School District 1).

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.