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Colfax Illinois Map

Explore Colfax, 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 Colfax, Illinois

How to Use This Colfax, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.566979
Longitude	-88.616451
Population	996
Density	695.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	61728
Area Code	309
County Seat	Bloomington
School District	Ridgeview Community Unit School District 19

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About Colfax, Illinois

Colfax is a locality in McLean County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 996. The population density is 695.4 people per km². Colfax is located at 40.5670°N, 88.6165°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Colfax is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61728.

Colfax occupies a flat, expansive stretch of the Illinois prairie where the horizon pulls the sky down to meet the earth in a seamless, unbroken line. It lies 20.0 miles east of Normal, IL (from Normal, IL: bearing 79°T), and is situated 16.7 miles east-northeast of McGaw Park. Colfax Creek carves a quiet, meandering path through the terrain, its banks offering a subtle ripple in the otherwise level landscape that defines the local topography. At Octavia Park, the land opens into a green reach that serves as the primary gathering point for the residents, providing a space where the wind carries the scent of damp soil and drying stalks across the open ground. While the jagged outlines of Yankee Ridge remain thirty-one miles away, they serve only as a phantom memory on the far western edge of the world, leaving the immediate view dominated by the vast, repetitive geometry of agricultural fields.

Colfax remains a place where the rhythm of the day is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the cycle of the harvest, anchoring the local economy to the deep, fertile silt of the surrounding acreage. The history of the area is written in the sturdy brick facades and the straight, purposeful streets that reflect an era of rail-driven commerce and agrarian growth. Though the stillness of the afternoon might be broken by the distant hum of machinery or the rustle of leaves, the character of the place is found in its unadorned persistence. For those seeking the water, Dawson Lake sits twelve miles off, a quiet presence that mirrors the clouds, yet life in Colfax stays firmly tethered to the land, moving with the steady, deliberate pace of a region built on the yield of the soil and the quiet endurance of its people.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Octavia Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 017° N
Henline Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 4.0 mi, 292° W
Saybrook State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 145° SE
Twin Groves Wind Farm Lookout (Viewpoint) — 7.6 mi, 220° SW
Arrowsmith Battle Ground (Registered Battlefield) — 9.3 mi, 170° S
Memory Lane (Attraction) — 10.3 mi, 302° NW
Moraine View State Recreational Area (State Recreation Area) — 11.3 mi, 208° SW
Sibley Grove Fee (Conservation Area) — 12.9 mi, 087° E
Railside Golf Club (Local Recreation) — 13.7 mi, 116° SE
Student Art Gallery (Gallery) — 16.7 mi, 250° W
Ironwood Golf Course (Park) — 17.6 mi, 265° W
Bloomington Country Club Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 19.0 mi, 254° W
Bosarth Memorial (Monument) — 19.3 mi, 236° SW
University Galleries (Gallery) — 19.8 mi, 258° W
Second Globe Theatre (Public Artwork) — 20.1 mi, 258° W
Allen Theatre (Theatre) — 20.1 mi, 258° W
Old Main Cornerstone (Monument) — 20.1 mi, 259° W
Capen Auditorium (Theatre) — 20.1 mi, 259° W
The Sesquicentennial Gates (Monument) — 20.4 mi, 255° W
Merwin Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 20.4 mi, 255° W
Comlara Park (Local Park) — 21.0 mi, 279° W
Pontiac - Oakland Museum and Resource Center (Museum) — 21.6 mi, 358° N
Historic US Route 66 Sign (Attraction) — 21.6 mi, 251° W
Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum (Museum) — 21.7 mi, 358° N
Livingston County War Museum (Museum) — 21.7 mi, 358° N
Ladd School Subway (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 357° N
Project XV Museum (Museum) — 24.1 mi, 300° NW
Mackinaw River (State Recreation Area) — 35.2 mi, 268° W
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 52.5 mi, 313° NW · 13k acres
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 57.9 mi, 023° NE · 18k acres

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