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Eagle Lake Illinois Map

Explore Eagle Lake, 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 Eagle Lake, Illinois

How to Use This Eagle Lake, Illinois Map

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

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	Eagle Lake
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Will County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.366979
Longitude	-87.551983
Population	76
Density	48.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	60401
Area Code	708
County Seat	Joliet
School District	Beecher Community Unit School District 200U

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About Eagle Lake, Illinois

Eagle Lake is a locality in Will County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 76. The population density is 48.8 people per km². Eagle Lake is located at 41.3670°N, 87.5520°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 60401.

Eagle Lake anchors itself upon the flat, expansive plains of the Illinois interior, where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 10.5 miles south-southeast of Chicago Heights, IL (from Chicago Heights, IL: bearing 156°T), and is situated 9.2 miles south-southwest of Schererville. Trim Creek carves a persistent, narrow path through the local topography, its low-slung banks feeding the moisture into soil that has long been defined by the heavy, dark richness of the prairie. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the landscape stretches toward a horizon of soybean and corn, a vast grid of green and gold that shifts in color as the season turns. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised clarity, casting long shadows that emphasize the quiet, stubborn endurance of the surrounding landscape, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Stony Island Ridge provides the only break in an otherwise level, meditative horizon.

Economic life in Eagle Lake remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons and the steady, mechanical labor of the fields that fan out in every direction. The presence of Welton Stedt Park offers a small, preserved pocket of wilder ground, serving as a reminder of the terrain before the surveyors and the iron rails laid their straight lines across the state. While Cedar Lake sits a few miles off, the life of the people here is shaped more by the local grain elevators and the brick-and-limestone architecture that marks the older intersections of the center. Everyday existence moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, characterized by the hum of machinery during harvest and the sudden, profound stillness that settles over the streets when the wind dies down, leaving the air smelling faintly of dry earth and coming rain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Welton Stedt Park (Local Park) — 3.0 mi, 252° W
Hunter's Chase East Park (Local Park) — 3.1 mi, 259° W
Vincennes Trail (State Recreation Area) — 3.3 mi, 292° W
Goodenow Grove Nature Preserve 5 (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 299° NW
Goodenow Grove (State Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 322° NW
Plum Valley Preserve 2 (Local Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 348° N
Moeller Woods Preserve 1 (Local Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 360° N
Monastery Cedar Lake Golf Club (Park) — 4.9 mi, 076° E
Saint John the Evangelist (Public Artwork) — 5.6 mi, 043° NE
Steger Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 8.4 mi, 328° NW
Oak Knoll Golf Course (State Recreation Area) — 8.6 mi, 068° E
The Lincoln Highway (Monument) — 9.0 mi, 014° N
Lincoln Highway (Monument) — 9.0 mi, 015° N
King's Grove (Nature Reserve) — 9.2 mi, 324° NW
Sauk Trail Woods (Nature Reserve) — 9.9 mi, 329° NW
Union Street Gallery (Gallery) — 10.4 mi, 335° NW
Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 11.2 mi, 030° NE · 11k acres
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Marine Protected Area) — 11.2 mi, 025° NE
Promise You Art House (Gallery) — 13.6 mi, 020° N
The Artist's Den - Walk-in Ceramic Studio (Arts Centre) — 13.8 mi, 020° N
Peteyville Christmas Lights (Attraction) — 16.9 mi, 017° N
The Grainery Building (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 301° NW
Calumet City (Pink Smiley Face) Water Tower (Attraction) — 18.2 mi, 358° N
Old Zion Museum (Museum) — 18.6 mi, 320° NW
Former Lincoln School Entrance (Historic Ruins) — 18.9 mi, 352° N
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 21.5 mi, 341° N
Ed's Oasis (Viewpoint) — 21.6 mi, 076° E
Schmuhl School (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 297° NW
Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education (Museum) — 22.1 mi, 041° NE
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 23.5 mi, 275° W · 18k acres

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