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El Paso Illinois Map

Explore El Paso, 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 El Paso, Illinois

How to Use This El Paso, Illinois Map

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

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.

CityEl Paso
StateIllinois (IL)
CountyWoodford County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude40.739202
Longitude-89.016463
Population2,756
Density496.1 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code61738
Area Code309
County SeatEureka
School DistrictEl Paso-Gridley Community Unit School District 11

About El Paso, Illinois

El Paso is a locality in Woodford County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,756. The population density is 496.1 people per km². El Paso is located at 40.7392°N, 89.0165°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. El Paso is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61738.

El Paso occupies a flat, expansive plateau of rich soil that defines the central Illinois landscape. It lies 15.6 miles north of Normal, IL (from Normal, IL: bearing 355°T), and is situated 17.7 miles north of Bloomington. The horizon here is vast and unyielding, broken only by the silhouettes of grain elevators and the quiet, steady movement of the East Branch Panther Creek as it carves a slow path through the fields. At Jefferson Park, the grass holds the cool dampness of the morning, offering a small, green reprieve from the endless grid of farmland that stretches toward the distant, hazy rise of Blue Mound. When the sun begins to retreat, the sky turns a deep, bruised violet, casting a long, heavy light over the earth that makes the very texture of the soil seem to vibrate with potential.

Agriculture remains the pulse of El Paso, where the cycle of planting and harvest dictates the rhythm of the days and the character of the people. The town grew from the intersection of rail lines, a junction that once promised prosperity and now anchors a quieter, more deliberate existence. Residents move through their chores with the patience of those who understand the temperament of the seasons, their lives shaped by the quiet proximity of Stark Pond and the steady productivity of the surrounding acreage. There is a certain gravity in the way the local economy remains tethered to the land, a stubborn persistence that honors the labor of those who broke this prairie sod generations ago.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Project XV Museum (Museum) — 0.0 mi, 184° S
  • Corn Belt Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 104° E
  • Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 178° S
  • El Paso Country Club (Local Recreation) — 4.2 mi, 165° S
  • Sweeney Woods Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 137° SE
  • Fairlakes Golf Course (Park) — 6.7 mi, 230° SW
  • Merwin Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 129° SE
  • Roanoke Park and Swimming Pool (Local Recreation) — 10.6 mi, 292° W
  • Becker Auditorium (Theatre) — 13.3 mi, 262° W
  • Ronald Reagan Museum (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 262° W
  • Eureka Clay Time (Public Artwork) — 13.5 mi, 265° W
  • Ironwood Golf Course (Park) — 13.5 mi, 172° S
  • Memory Lane (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 118° SE
  • Stroud Auditorium (Theatre) — 15.5 mi, 176° S
  • Hayden Auditorium (Theatre) — 15.9 mi, 176° S
  • Old Main Cornerstone (Monument) — 15.9 mi, 175° S
  • University Galleries (Gallery) — 16.0 mi, 174° S
  • Second Globe Theatre (Public Artwork) — 16.1 mi, 175° S
  • Merwin Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 17.3 mi, 176° S
  • The Sesquicentennial Gates (Monument) — 17.4 mi, 175° S
  • Mackinaw River (State Recreation Area) — 18.5 mi, 230° SW
  • Student Art Gallery (Gallery) — 18.5 mi, 163° S
  • Historic US Route 66 Sign (Attraction) — 19.0 mi, 178° S
  • Washington F4 Tornado Memorial (Monument) — 21.4 mi, 264° W
  • Ladd School Subway (Attraction) — 22.1 mi, 063° NE
  • Pontiac - Oakland Museum and Resource Center (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 064° NE
  • Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum (Museum) — 22.5 mi, 064° NE
  • Moraine View State Recreational Area (State Recreation Area) — 26.1 mi, 146° SE
  • Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.6 mi, 323° NW · 13k acres
  • Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 35.3 mi, 360° N

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About This El Paso Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of El Paso, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.739202, -89.016463. 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 El Paso includes the ZIP code (61738), telephone area code (309), county seat of Woodford County (Eureka), and school district assignment (El Paso-Gridley Community Unit School District 11).

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.