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Egan Illinois Map

Explore Egan, 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 Egan, Illinois

How to Use This Egan, Illinois Map

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

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	Egan
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Ogle County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	42.188357
Longitude	-89.405944
Population	180
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	61047, 61927
Area Code	847, 224, 309
County Seat	Oregon

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About Egan, Illinois

Egan is a locality in Ogle County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Egan is located at 42.1884°N, 89.4059°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 61047, 61927.

Egan reveals itself through a landscape of expansive, flattened horizons where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 13.3 miles southeast of Freeport, IL (from Freeport, IL: bearing 124°T), and is situated 8.8 miles west-northwest of Byron. The land around Egan stretches into quiet, fertile plains, occasionally broken by the low, insistent rise of Hardpan Ridge looming in the far distance. Otter Creek drifts through the periphery, its passage marked by a narrow ribbon of dense, stubborn willow and cottonwood that defies the surrounding sweep of open fields. When the sun begins to retreat, the light catches the dust kicked up from gravel roads, casting a long, amber glow that makes the fields feel as if they are breathing under the weight of the coming night.

Egan maintains a deliberate, measured pace that honors the agricultural backbone of the region, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest. The legacy of early settlement persists in the sturdy, unadorned architecture that lines the streets, built for durability rather than show. Residents often seek a quiet reprieve at Ben Miller Park, a local space that offers a necessary stillness away from the hum of modern commerce. Those who look for water beyond the fields often find their way to the banks of Coffman Lake, a place that serves as a communal anchor for the surrounding countryside. Even as the decades have shifted the focus of the local trade, Egan keeps a quiet fidelity to the patterns of the land, holding fast to a character defined by persistence and the honest, heavy soil of the Midwest.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ben Miller Park (Local Park) — 4.7 mi, 293° NW
Seward Bluffs Rec. (Local Conservation Area) — 6.2 mi, 013° N
Byron Drag Strip (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 126° SE
By-com (Local Park) — 8.7 mi, 140° SE
Pecatonica Wetlands Forest Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 003° N
Soldier's Monument (Monument) — 8.9 mi, 119° SE
Commonwealth Edison Prairie (State Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 149° SE
Youth Center (Attraction) — 9.3 mi, 123° SE
T-38 Aircraft (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 294° NW
Oakdale Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 10.2 mi, 288° W
The Dells (Attraction) — 10.7 mi, 083° E
Lowden State Park (State Park) — 11.0 mi, 161° S
Black Hawk Statue (Public Artwork) — 11.3 mi, 161° S
Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 12.3 mi, 021° N
Stillman's (Monument) — 13.1 mi, 116° SE
Deluna Fine Art Gallery (Gallery) — 13.3 mi, 305° NW
Castle Rock State Park (State Park) — 13.5 mi, 177° S
White Pines Forest Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 13.6 mi, 192° S
Krape Park Band Shell (Theatre) — 13.9 mi, 296° NW
Boat Rental (Attraction) — 14.1 mi, 296° NW
Park Hills Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 15.2 mi, 299° NW
Council Ring (Theatre) — 16.4 mi, 173° S
The McPherson (Arts Centre) — 16.6 mi, 073° E
Turtle Mound (Historic Ruins) — 17.2 mi, 070° E
317 Art Collaborative (Arts Centre) — 17.2 mi, 071° E
Bennie's Cleaners (Gallery) — 17.2 mi, 071° E
Kith and Kiln Art Collective (Gallery) — 17.2 mi, 071° E
Avon Bottoms Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 23.2 mi, 006° N
Extensive Wl Habitat - Sd (State Recreation Area) — 26.8 mi, 009° N
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife And Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.7 mi, 258° W · 274k acres

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