Explore Deer Park, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Deer Park, 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 Deer Park.
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 | Deer Park |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Lake County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 42.166284 |
| Longitude | -88.08618 |
| Population | 3,681 |
| Density | 389.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 61348, 60010 |
| Area Code | 815, 312, 773 |
| County Seat | Waukegan |
| School District | Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 |
Deer Park emerges from the flat, glacial till of the Illinois landscape as a quiet expanse where the sky feels vast and unburdened by the density of the nearby metropolis. It lies 2.6 miles south-southeast of Lake Zurich, IL (from Lake Zurich, IL: bearing 166°T), and is situated 8.8 miles north of Schaumburg. The terrain here is defined by subtle, rhythmic shifts in elevation, a lingering memory of the ice sheets that once smoothed the Midwestern plains into a patchwork of woodland and open meadow. Water shapes the periphery of the local geography, with the quiet waters of Deer Lake resting just a mile away and the winding course of Buffalo Creek carving its path through the soil two miles to the west. Within the immediate neighborhood, Charlie Brown Park serves as a modest, open green space, providing a terrestrial anchor where the light at dusk catches the tall prairie grasses, turning them a pale, metallic gold before the shadows of the oaks stretch long across the ground.
History in Deer Park reflects the broader transition of the region from agrarian frontier to a carefully planned residential enclave, where the economy shifted away from the plow to support a quiet, suburban stability. Residents here occupy a space that privileges privacy and the preservation of natural corridors, maintaining a distance from the industrial clamor of the regional centers while benefiting from the infrastructure that keeps the local economy in motion. While the distant silhouette of Bald Knob remains a mere suggestion on the horizon, the true character of the place is found in the daily rhythm of life, where the stillness of a morning near the trees is rarely disturbed. This is a landscape that demands little from the traveler, offering instead a sense of order and the simple, persistent beauty of a horizon uninterrupted by the vertical intrusion of the city.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Deer Park, Illinois. Coordinates: 42.166284, -88.08618. 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 Deer Park includes the ZIP code (61348, 60010), telephone area code (815, 312, 773), county seat of Lake County (Waukegan), and school district assignment (Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |