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Cornell Illinois Map

Explore Cornell, 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 Cornell, Illinois

How to Use This Cornell, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.992022
Longitude	-88.729881
Population	446
Density	263.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	60619, 61319
Area Code	312, 773, 815
County Seat	Pontiac
School District	Cornell Community Consolidated School District 426

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About Cornell, Illinois

Cornell is a locality in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 446. The population density is 263.3 people per km². Cornell is located at 40.9920°N, 88.7299°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cornell is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 60619, 61319.

Cornell occupies a flat, expansive plateau where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered, defined by the persistent geometry of Illinois farmland. It lies 9.2 miles northwest of Pontiac, IL (from Pontiac, IL: bearing 325°T), and is situated 10.6 miles south-southeast of Streator. The landscape is defined by the steady, quiet presence of Mud Creek, which meanders through the surrounding fields just a mile away, carving a subtle depression into the black soil. At the center of the grid, Cornell Park provides a modest patch of green where the light of late afternoon catches the swaying grasses, casting long, lean shadows that emphasize the vastness of the prairie sky. While the elevated silhouette of Sand Ridge (historic) remains a distant, hazy memory on the far horizon, the immediate earth is marked by the deep, fertile textures of a region shaped by glacial retreat and the patient labor of those who work the dirt.

Economic life in Cornell remains tethered to the rhythmic cycles of the harvest, an existence measured in the golden hues of corn and the darker, dusty greens of soybean stalks. The modest architecture of the local streets speaks of a utilitarian history, where grain elevators and railway lines once dictated the flow of commerce and the very shape of the neighborhood. Residents often look toward the more distant waters of Lentman Lake, eight miles away, for a change in the horizon, yet the daily pulse of Cornell is found closer to home in the quiet maintenance of the land and the steady, unadorned movement of machinery. It is a place where the air carries the dry, honest scent of cultivated earth and the quiet persistence of a community that understands its place within the broader, endless plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Conell Miller Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 268° W
Cornell Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 188° S
Humiston Woods Nature Center (Private Recreation) — 3.2 mi, 174° S
Twin Creeks Golf Course (Park) — 5.6 mi, 329° NW
Pontiac Fairground (Local Recreation) — 7.7 mi, 153° SE
Otter Creek (Conservation Area) — 8.4 mi, 018° N
Sunbury Railroad Prairie State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.5 mi, 041° NE
Ladd School Subway (Attraction) — 8.9 mi, 148° SE
Livingston County War Museum (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 146° SE
Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 146° SE
Pontiac - Oakland Museum and Resource Center (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 146° SE
ATSF Depot (Attraction) — 10.3 mi, 331° NW
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 329° NW
Engle Lane Theater (Theatre) — 10.5 mi, 321° NW
Standard Oil Gas Station (Attraction) — 10.5 mi, 086° E
Reuben G. Soderstrom (Public Artwork) — 10.6 mi, 329° NW
Pluto Monument (Monument) — 12.1 mi, 333° NW
Illini State Park (State Park) — 22.6 mi, 003° N
Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall (Monument) — 23.0 mi, 002° N
Project XV Museum (Museum) — 23.0 mi, 221° SW
Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 23.3 mi, 321° NW
Illinois and Michigan Canal State Trail (State Recreation Area) — 23.9 mi, 018° N
Illinois Canyon (Viewpoint) — 24.1 mi, 333° NW
Memory Lane (Attraction) — 24.1 mi, 187° S
Outside Amphitheather (Theatre) — 26.4 mi, 329° NW
Plum Island Site (Historic Ruins) — 26.8 mi, 329° NW
Starved Rock Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 27.7 mi, 325° NW
Grundy County Historical Society (Museum) — 29.7 mi, 032° NE
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.2 mi, 281° W · 13k acres
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 37.4 mi, 044° NE · 18k acres

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