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Dawson Illinois Map

Explore Dawson, 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 Dawson, Illinois

How to Use This Dawson, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.852826
Longitude	-89.463428
Population	519
Density	253.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62520
Area Code	217
County Seat	Springfield
School District	Tri-City Community Unit School District 1

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About Dawson, Illinois

Dawson is a locality in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 519. The population density is 253.0 people per km². Dawson is located at 39.8528°N, 89.4634°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Dawson is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62520.

Dawson occupies a stretch of level, fertile earth where the horizon pulls away in every direction to reveal the vast, unbroken geometry of the Illinois prairie. It lies 10.2 miles east-northeast of Springfield, IL (from Springfield, IL: bearing 70°T), and is situated 8.0 miles east-southeast of Sherman. The land here is defined by the steady, unassuming presence of North Fork Clear Creek, which carves a modest path through the silt and heavy topsoil just a mile from the residential center. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Blind Horse Ridge occasionally catches the amber light of a setting sun, providing a distant anchor to an otherwise expansive sky. The air in Dawson carries the dry, honest scent of turned earth and ripening stalks, a fragrance that intensifies when the wind carries moisture over from Shaft Pond, four miles distant, to settle in the quiet hollows of the fields.

Dawson maintains a pace dictated by the seasonal cycle of the grain elevators and the steady, rhythmic labor of the local agricultural economy. History persists here in the weathered foundations of buildings that long ago served the rail lines, grounding the character of the place in a stubborn, Midwestern endurance. Life revolves around the simple utility of the landscape, where the silence of the open plains is broken only by the hum of machinery or the distant activity at City Hall Ball Parks. There is a particular clarity to the light during the harvest months, a golden, heavy quality that makes the iron-gray structures and the long, straight roads appear as if they were drawn with a sharpened pencil against the immense, shifting canvas of the sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

City Hall Ball Parks (Local Recreation) — 3.7 mi, 274° W
Center Park (Local Park) — 4.1 mi, 266° W
Veterans Memorial Park (Local Park) — 4.3 mi, 262° W
War Memorial (Monument) — 4.5 mi, 131° SE
St Francis of Assisi (Public Artwork) — 5.3 mi, 262° W
Lincoln and the Talisman (Monument) — 7.0 mi, 277° W
Carpenter Park (Local Recreation) — 8.1 mi, 279° W
Roll of Honor Archway (Monument) — 8.3 mi, 327° NW
Boxcar Museum (Museum) — 8.3 mi, 327° NW
Shell Gas Station (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 327° NW
Route 66 Dream Car Museum (Museum) — 8.5 mi, 325° NW
Margery Adams Wildlife Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 9.0 mi, 247° SW
Carpenter Park Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 279° W
Shea's Gas Station Museum (Museum) — 9.4 mi, 260° W
High Dive Show (Attraction) — 9.4 mi, 262° W
Illinois State Fair Museum (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 264° W
Milk a Cow (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 263° W
AMC Showplace 8 (Cinema) — 9.9 mi, 231° SW
The Muni (Theatre) — 9.9 mi, 219° SW
Springfield Art Association (Arts Centre) — 10.3 mi, 253° W
The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space (Gallery) — 10.4 mi, 250° W
Elijah Iles House (Museum) — 10.5 mi, 248° W
Hoogland Center (Theatre) — 10.5 mi, 249° W
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 12.7 mi, 180° S
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 13.1 mi, 277° W
Calamus Lake State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.0 mi, 098° E
Edward R. Madigan State Park (State Park) — 17.5 mi, 012° N
Lincolns New Salem State Park (State Park) — 20.8 mi, 292° W
Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.9 mi, 315° NW · 5,262 acres
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.0 mi, 324° NW · 13k acres

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