East Brooklyn Illinois Map
Explore East Brooklyn, 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 East Brooklyn, Illinois
How to Use This East Brooklyn, Illinois Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for East Brooklyn, 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 East Brooklyn.
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 | East Brooklyn |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Grundy County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.173365 |
| Longitude | -88.263948 |
| Population | 80 |
| Density | 594.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 60474 |
| Area Code | 708 |
| County Seat | Morris |
| School District | Gardner-South Wilmington Township High School District |
About East Brooklyn, Illinois
East Brooklyn is a locality in Grundy County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 80. The population density is 594.0 people per km². East Brooklyn is located at 41.1734°N, 88.2639°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. East Brooklyn is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 60474.East Brooklyn emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Illinois prairie as a quiet settlement defined by the winding course of the Mazon River. It lies 15.1 miles south-southeast of Morris, IL (from Morris, IL: bearing 147°T), and is situated 6.9 miles south-southwest of Braidwood. The landscape here favors the wide-open sky, where the quality of light at dusk transforms the surrounding fields into deep shades of copper and violet. To the west, the cooling towers of the Braidwood Power Plant Cooling Pond loom as singular, industrial monoliths against the clouds, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Sand Ridge (historic) offers a faint reminder of the geological shifts that once shaped this region. The Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area serves as a sanctuary for local flora and fauna, its marshes and ponds providing a necessary stillness that offsets the persistent hum of the nearby power infrastructure.
Economic life in East Brooklyn remains tethered to the rhythms of the land and the legacy of the regional power industry that has long anchored the local identity. The soil here, dark and heavy with the potential of the Midwestern plains, supports a tradition of agriculture that persists alongside the utilitarian demands of modern energy production. Residents move through their days with a steady, pragmatic focus, their lives shaped by the intersection of rural isolation and the reach of the nearby metropolitan grid. Visitors might find the atmosphere austere, yet there is a distinct beauty in the way the wind moves through the grasses of the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, miles away but felt in the same shifting air. East Brooklyn maintains a character formed by this balance, a place where the history of the earth and the mechanics of the present exist in a constant, quiet dialogue.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.9 mi, 349° N
- Route 66 Diners (Attraction) — 2.4 mi, 296° NW
- Gardner Jail (Attraction) — 2.4 mi, 296° NW
- Mazonia Railroad Prairie (State Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 346° N
- K-Mine Park (Local Park) — 4.1 mi, 014° N
- Sand Ridge Savanna Preserve 3 (Local Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 044° NE
- Braidwood Area Historical Society (Museum) — 6.8 mi, 021° N
- Elvis (Attraction) — 6.9 mi, 024° NE
- Kankakee Sands Preserve 4 (Local Conservation Area) — 7.5 mi, 036° NE
- Coal City Bell (Monument) — 7.6 mi, 352° N
- Wauponsee Glacial Trail 1 (Local Recreation) — 8.6 mi, 055° NE
- Park in Grundy County (Local Park) — 9.9 mi, 341° N
- Hitts Siding Prairie Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 10.0 mi, 029° NE
- Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 10.8 mi, 035° NE
- Gemini Giant (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 033° NE
- Wilmington Historical Society Building (Museum) — 11.2 mi, 033° NE
- Midewin Other (National Forest) — 12.1 mi, 021° N · 18k acres
- Illinois and Michigan Canal State Trail (State Recreation Area) — 14.6 mi, 005° N
- William G. Stratton State Park (State Park) — 14.8 mi, 328° NW
- Chief Shauwanasee Memorial (Monument) — 15.1 mi, 078° E
- Grundy County Historical Society (Museum) — 15.3 mi, 326° NW
- Morris Guild Theater Playhouse (Theatre) — 15.3 mi, 326° NW
- Gebhard Woods State Park (State Park) — 15.3 mi, 326° NW
- Kankakee County Museum (Museum) — 20.5 mi, 102° E
- Louis Jolliet (Public Artwork) — 26.2 mi, 022° N
- Joliet Area Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 26.2 mi, 021° N
- Lake Renwick Heron Rookery Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 29.8 mi, 007° N
- Richard A. Rock Amphitheater (Theatre) — 30.1 mi, 005° N
- Illinois State Museum-Lockport Gallery (Gallery) — 30.6 mi, 020° N
- Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 48.4 mi, 061° NE · 11k acres
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About This East Brooklyn Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of East Brooklyn, Illinois. Coordinates: 41.173365, -88.263948. 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 East Brooklyn includes the ZIP code (60474), telephone area code (708), county seat of Grundy County (Morris), and school district assignment (Gardner-South Wilmington Township High School District).
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. |
