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East Cape Girardeau Illinois Map

Explore East Cape Girardeau, 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 Cape Girardeau, Illinois

How to Use This East Cape Girardeau, Illinois Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for East Cape Girardeau, 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 Cape Girardeau.

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 Cape Girardeau
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Alexander County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	37.294005
Longitude	-89.480188
Population	289
Density	56.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62957
Area Code	618
County Seat	Cairo
School District	Shawnee Community Unit School District 84

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About East Cape Girardeau, Illinois

East Cape Girardeau is a locality in Alexander County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 289. The population density is 56.9 people per km². East Cape Girardeau is located at 37.2940°N, 89.4802°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. East Cape Girardeau is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62957.

East Cape Girardeau occupies a flat, alluvial stretch of land that serves as a quiet threshold between the shifting moods of the Mississippi River and the expansive, fertile plains of the Illinois interior. It lies 1.4 miles east-southeast of Cape Girardeau, MO (from Cape Girardeau, MO: bearing 120°T), and is situated 5.7 miles north-northeast of Scott City. The landscape here is defined by the heavy, dark silt of the Black Land Bottom, a low-lying basin where the air often hangs thick and humid, holding the scent of damp earth and coming rain. Directly adjacent to the quiet waters of Edmondson Slough, the terrain remains stubbornly level, a vast expanse of agricultural fields that stretch toward the faint, hazy silhouettes of the Santa Fe Hills rising in the distance. The light in the late afternoon possesses a peculiar, amber weight, casting long shadows across the fields and grounding the horizon in a deep, autumnal gold that feels distinct from the sharper, thinner light of higher elevations.

East Cape Girardeau operates as a modest nexus of industry and agriculture, shaped by the relentless movement of the Mississippi River and the seasonal rhythms of the surrounding crop cycles. History here is written in the furrows of the fields and the sturdy, pragmatic architecture that resists the occasional swell of the floodplain, reflecting a local economy tethered to the transport of grain and the maintenance of the vital levees. Residents find a singular kind of solitude within the bounds of Unknown Park, where the stillness of the land offers a counterpoint to the industrial hum of the regional river traffic. Life proceeds with a deliberate, unadorned momentum, where the presence of the nearby Union County State Forest provides a dense, wooded anchor for the region, balancing the open, industrial utility of the bottomlands with the quiet, persistent growth of the wild.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 261° W
Cape Bend State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 117° SE
Middle Mississippi Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 1.3 mi, 147° SE · 3,877 acres
Devil's Island tate Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 017° N
Red Star Access (State Recreation Area) — 2.3 mi, 313° NW
Fort D (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 265° W
Twin Trees (Local Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 343° N
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 2.8 mi, 114° SE · 274k acres
Springdale Farm (Local Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 342° N
Shawnee Park (Local Recreation) — 3.2 mi, 270° W
Delaware (Local Park) — 4.0 mi, 319° NW
(former Site) Terrace Inn (Historic Ruins) — 5.0 mi, 243° SW
World’s Largest Fountain Drink Cup (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 267° W
Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center (Attraction) — 6.9 mi, 300° NW
Trail Of Tears State Park (State Park) — 9.6 mi, 360° N
Scenic Overlook (Viewpoint) — 11.8 mi, 002° N
Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.4 mi, 114° SE · 33k acres
Wolf Lake Memorial Garden (Monument) — 14.7 mi, 009° N
Ozark Hills Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 15.0 mi, 029° NE
Horseshoe Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 15.3 mi, 147° SE
Cobden Museum (Museum) — 20.7 mi, 037° NE
Alto Clay Works (Attraction) — 21.3 mi, 024° NE
Pomona Natural Bridge (Attraction) — 25.6 mi, 017° N
Cairo River Wall Murals (Public Artwork) — 26.3 mi, 139° SE
Caboose (Attraction) — 26.6 mi, 139° SE
GEM Theatre (Cinema) — 26.6 mi, 140° SE
John Bridges Tavern Location (Historic Ruins) — 27.3 mi, 069° E
Malco (Cinema) — 29.0 mi, 190° S
Amplitheatre (Theatre) — 32.2 mi, 026° NE
McLeod Theatre (Theatre) — 32.3 mi, 026° NE

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