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Cisne Illinois Map

Explore Cisne, 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 Cisne, Illinois

How to Use This Cisne, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	38.515882
Longitude	-88.437548
Population	634
Density	388.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62823
Area Code	618
County Seat	Fairfield
School District	North Wayne Community Unit School District 200

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Sam Dale Lake State Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.0 mi, 280° W
Sam And Florence Atkinson Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 8.9 mi, 153° SE
Lakeside Park (Local Park) — 9.5 mi, 157° SE
Hanging Rock Sandstone Cliff State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 329° NW
Lincoln Monument (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 155° SE
War Memorial (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 155° SE
Wayne County Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.4 mi, 156° SE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 10.8 mi, 160° S
Little Wabash River (Conservation Area) — 10.9 mi, 046° NE
Clay County Historical Society (Museum) — 18.0 mi, 349° N
Stephen A. Forbest State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 21.0 mi, 308° NW
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 23.5 mi, 308° NW
Carnegie Museum (Museum) — 24.3 mi, 052° NE
Granada (Theatre) — 28.6 mi, 242° SW
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 29.2 mi, 244° SW
Carl L Schweinfurth Museum and Interpretive Center (Museum) — 29.2 mi, 245° SW
Unique Stones (Public Artwork) — 29.9 mi, 242° SW
Robert Ridgeway Grasslands (Nature Reserve) — 30.4 mi, 027° NE
Waterfow Viewing Area (Viewpoint) — 36.3 mi, 230° SW
Dieterich Community Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 37.7 mi, 004° N
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.8 mi, 110° E · 20k acres
The Atheneum & Visitors Center at Historic New Harmony (Museum) — 37.9 mi, 134° SE
Archaeological Dig (Historic Ruins) — 38.0 mi, 134° SE
New Harmony Contemporary Gallery & Shop (Gallery) — 38.1 mi, 134° SE
Hoosier Salon (Gallery) — 38.1 mi, 134° SE
Murphy Auditorium & USI New Harmony Theatre (Theatre) — 38.2 mi, 134° SE
Harmonie State Park (State Park) — 39.2 mi, 138° SE
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 55.9 mi, 173° S · 7,712 acres
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 56.1 mi, 173° S · 274k acres
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.6 mi, 208° SW · 91k acres

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