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Crescent City Illinois Map

Explore Crescent City, 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 Crescent City, Illinois

How to Use This Crescent City, Illinois Map

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

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	Crescent City
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Iroquois County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	40.770035
Longitude	-87.858925
Population	552
Density	467.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	60928
Area Code	630, 331
County Seat	Watseka
School District	Crescent Iroquois Community Unit School District 249

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About Crescent City, Illinois

Crescent City is a locality in Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 552. The population density is 467.4 people per km². Crescent City is located at 40.7700°N, 87.8589°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Crescent City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 60928.

Crescent City emerges from the vast, flat expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a sky that seems to claim more than its fair share of the heavens. It lies 24.2 miles south of Kankakee, IL (from Kankakee, IL: bearing 180°T), and is situated 6.4 miles west of Watseka. The land here holds the quiet, heavy stillness of deep topsoil, patterned by the precise, seasonal geometry of corn and soybean rows that ripple toward the distant edges of the world. Two miles to the west, Spring Creek carves a thin, meandering line through the dark earth, its banks providing a subtle break in the monotony of the fields, while the still waters of Kam Lake lie three miles away, mirroring the shifting clouds in a muted, glassy gray. Beyond the immediate flatlands, the elevation rises slightly toward the northwest, where the distant silhouette of Pilot Hill marks the limit of the view, grounding the landscape in a firm, Midwestern reality.

Crescent City carries the quiet, industrious character of a settlement built upon the rhythms of the harvest and the steady passage of the rail. The economy remains tethered to the productivity of the surrounding acreage, a legacy of the settlers who first broke this sod and understood the value of the fertile, black loam. Life here moves in accordance with the seasonal cycles of the fields, punctuated by the occasional activity at the Crescent City Fairground, where the echoes of community gatherings provide a social anchor for the surrounding rural families. Farther out, the subtle dip of Eastburn Hollow reminds those who travel through that the land is not merely a flat plane, but a terrain shaped by ancient, glacial shifts that left behind this expanse of productive, hardworking earth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Crescent City Fairground (Local Recreation) — 2.1 mi, 350° N
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 5.8 mi, 081° E
Legion Park (Local Park) — 6.4 mi, 094° E
Bonnie's Prairie Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.6 mi, 057° NE
Shewami Country Club (Local Recreation) — 11.7 mi, 093° E
Illinois Outdorrsmen Association (Private Recreation) — 12.0 mi, 144° SE
JB-2 Loon (WWII V-1 German Buzz Bomb Replica) (Monument) — 13.0 mi, 139° SE
Origin of Milford (Monument) — 13.0 mi, 139° SE
Sugar Creek (Attraction) — 19.3 mi, 115° SE
Willow Slough Fish And Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.6 mi, 054° NE
Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge And Conservation Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.2 mi, 045° NE · 132 acres
Kankakee County Museum (Museum) — 23.7 mi, 357° N
Pottawatomi Campground Memorial (Monument) — 24.1 mi, 360° N
Tomlinson Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 28.9 mi, 189° S
LaSalle Fish and Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 33.1 mi, 036° NE
Route 66 Diners (Attraction) — 37.1 mi, 321° NW
Gardner Jail (Attraction) — 37.1 mi, 321° NW
Standard Oil Gas Station (Attraction) — 38.5 mi, 295° NW
Lilian Fendig Gallery (Gallery) — 38.7 mi, 072° E
Prairie Arts Council (Arts Centre) — 38.7 mi, 072° E
Ritz Cinema (Cinema) — 38.7 mi, 073° E
Braidwood Area Historical Society (Museum) — 38.9 mi, 331° NW
Wilmington Historical Society Building (Museum) — 40.1 mi, 338° N
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 40.3 mi, 346° N · 18k acres
Heron Park (Viewpoint) — 40.4 mi, 164° S
Kickapoo State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 40.6 mi, 171° S
Livingston County War Museum (Museum) — 41.0 mi, 281° W
Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum (Museum) — 41.0 mi, 281° W
Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 55.3 mi, 023° NE · 11k acres
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Marine Protected Area) — 55.5 mi, 022° N

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