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Dale Illinois Map

Explore Dale, 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 Dale, Illinois

How to Use This Dale, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	37.995047
Longitude	-88.491717
Population	280
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	62829
Area Code	618
County Seat	McLeansboro

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About Dale, Illinois

Dale is a locality in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Dale is located at 37.9950°N, 88.4917°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62829.

Dale unfolds across a landscape of flat, fertile earth where the horizon stretches thin under a sky that seems to possess more weight than the ground itself. It lies 30.2 miles northeast of Marion, IL (from Marion, IL: bearing 53°T), and is situated 7.2 miles south-southeast of McLeansboro. The land is defined by a rhythmic, heavy stillness, broken only by the sluggish, purposeful flow of Contrary Creek just a mile away, which carves a narrow vein of humidity through the otherwise dry, expansive fields. Sunlight in Dale has a way of bleaching the color from the wooden siding of aging barns, leaving them a uniform, sun-scorched gray that mirrors the dusty haze of an approaching storm. In the distance, the faint, jagged silhouette of Big Ridge barely interrupts the flat line of the world, providing a permanent, muted boundary to the west that reminds the traveler of the vast, inland isolation of the Illinois prairie.

Life in Dale remains tethered to the slow, stubborn cycles of agriculture, where the prosperity of the season is measured in the height of corn and the yield of soybeans. The proximity of the Hamilton County State Fish and Wildlife Area offers a quiet sanctuary of scrub and woodland, a stark contrast to the manicured geometry of the surrounding farms that have dictated the local economy for generations. On quieter afternoons, the light catches the surface of L P Dolan Lake six miles out, turning the water into a sheet of hammered silver that absorbs the heat of the day. The people of Dale navigate their days with a deliberate, unadorned efficiency, moving through a landscape that demands little but provides everything necessary for a life measured by the turning of the soil and the changing of the wind.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hamilton County State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 054° NE
Kiwanis Park (Local Park) — 6.8 mi, 337° NW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 7.3 mi, 340° N
Ten Mile Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.5 mi, 309° NW
Homestead of Judge Samuel Elder (Monument) — 12.6 mi, 169° S
Big John (Public Artwork) — 13.3 mi, 168° S
David Nave Insurance (Attraction) — 17.9 mi, 190° S
WSILTV 3 (Harrisburg) Tower (Viewpoint) — 18.0 mi, 189° S
Harrisburg Daily Register (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 188° S
Whites Florist (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 190° S
Graf Ink Printing (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 189° S
Tunnel Hill (State Recreation Area) — 19.6 mi, 190° S
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 20.8 mi, 168° S · 274k acres
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 22.0 mi, 152° SE · 7,712 acres
Dunbar School (Historic Ruins) — 22.3 mi, 198° S
Gary Jones Memorial (Monument) — 22.5 mi, 198° S
Lakeview War Memorial (Monument) — 22.5 mi, 198° S
Allen Family Farmhouse (Historic Ruins) — 23.1 mi, 198° S
Fishin' Hole Amphitheater (Theatre) — 24.3 mi, 277° W
Garden Of The Gods Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 25.9 mi, 168° S · 3,978 acres
Wayne County Historical Museum (Museum) — 27.4 mi, 015° N
White Oak (Theatre) — 28.1 mi, 279° W
Harmonie State Park (State Park) — 28.2 mi, 082° E
Burden Falls Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 28.4 mi, 194° S · 3,740 acres
Pounds Hollow Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 29.5 mi, 157° SE
The Atheneum & Visitors Center at Historic New Harmony (Museum) — 31.5 mi, 072° E
Maximillian Bodmer Exhibit (Museum) — 31.7 mi, 073° E
New Harmony Contemporary Gallery & Shop (Gallery) — 31.7 mi, 073° E
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 32.0 mi, 235° SW · 91k acres
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.8 mi, 059° NE · 20k acres

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