De Witt Illinois Map

About De Witt, Illinois

De Witt is a locality in De Witt County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 160. The population density is 260.7 people per km². De Witt is located at 40.1811°N, 88.7862°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. De Witt is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61735.

De Witt occupies a broad, quiet expanse of the Illinois prairie where the horizon remains wide and unencumbered by the shadow of any distant peak. The landscape surrounding De Witt is defined by a rhythmic, flat topography, where the sky exerts a heavy, luminous influence upon the soil. Only twenty-five miles away, the faint, hazy suggestion of Yankee Ridge occasionally brushes the edge of the sky, though the immediate view is dominated by the silver-gray currents of Salt Creek and the still, expansive waters of Lake Clinton. A particular quality of light settles over these fields at dusk, casting a long, amber glow that softens the rigid geometry of the surrounding farmland and makes the air feel thick with the scent of earth and turning grain.

Economic life in De Witt remains tethered to the slow, seasonal pulse of the surrounding agricultural plains, where corn and soybeans form the primary architecture of the economy. The history of the region is written in the deep, fertile dark of the soil, a legacy that has drawn generations to cultivate the land and maintain the steady, internal pace of the Midwestern interior. Beyond the immediate fields, residents often look toward the quiet, wooded trails of Weldon Springs State Park to find a reprieve from the labor of the harvest. De Witt maintains a distinctive, deliberate character, one defined less by the velocity of modern life than by the enduring, quiet stability of a place that understands its own relationship to the changing seasons and the vast, open plains that define the local identity.

About This De Witt Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of De Witt, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.181147, -88.786184. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for De Witt includes the ZIP code (61735), telephone area code (309), county seat of De Witt County (Clinton), and school district assignment (Clinton Community Unit School District 15).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.