Cisne Illinois Map

About Cisne, Illinois

Cisne is a locality in Wayne County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 634. The population density is 388.6 people per km². Cisne is located at 38.5159°N, 88.4375°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cisne is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62823.

Cisne occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois interior, where the land flattens into a persistent, productive horizon of corn and soybean fields. It lies 28.7 miles east-northeast of Mount Vernon, IL (from Mount Vernon, IL: bearing 61°T), and is situated 10.4 miles north-northwest of Fairfield. Deer Creek carves a shallow, essential path through the terrain, its waters moving with a deliberate, sluggish patience that dictates the drainage of the surrounding soil. To the north, the elevation rises slightly toward the distant rise of Linder Hill, though the view remains dominated by the vast, open sky that shifts from the pale, bruised gray of winter to the humid, golden haze of midsummer. A few miles away, the quiet woods of the Sam Dale Lake State Conservation Area offer a dense, shadowed contrast to the exposed, geometric precision of the nearby farmland.

History in Cisne remains tethered to the iron rails that once dictated the pulse of rural commerce, drawing the rhythm of the day from the arrival of goods and the seasonal cycle of the harvest. Local life sustains itself through the quiet labor of agriculture, where the machinery of the modern farm hums against a backdrop of older, clapboard structures that bear the patina of decades. Residents often look toward Shady Lake for the stillness of a Sunday afternoon, finding in its quiet basin a respite from the mechanical demands of the fields. There is a singular, unadorned integrity to the way Cisne persists, a place where the social fabric is woven from long-standing ties to the earth and the slow, steady accumulation of seasons passed in the heart of the prairie.

About This Cisne Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cisne, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.515882, -88.437548. 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 Cisne includes the ZIP code (62823), telephone area code (618), county seat of Wayne County (Fairfield), and school district assignment (North Wayne 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.