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Elvaston Illinois Map

Explore Elvaston, 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 Elvaston, Illinois

How to Use This Elvaston, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.395045
Longitude	-91.249591
Population	147
Density	71.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62334
Area Code	217
County Seat	Carthage
School District	Hamilton Community Consolidated School District 328

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About Elvaston, Illinois

Elvaston is a locality in Hancock County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 147. The population density is 71.0 people per km². Elvaston is located at 40.3950°N, 91.2496°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Elvaston is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62334.

Elvaston occupies a quiet, sun-drenched expanse of the Illinois prairie where the horizon stretches flat and wide, punctuated only by the seasonal rhythms of corn and soybean stalks. It lies 30.7 miles west of Macomb, IL (from Macomb, IL: bearing 262°T), and is situated 7.1 miles east of Keokuk. The landscape is defined by the West Fork Bear Creek, a modest watercourse that carves a slow, deliberate path through the earth, feeding the silty soil and providing a silver ribbon of movement through the stillness. To the far horizon, the faint, hazy suggestion of Gin Ridge provides a boundary to the view, though the immediate world remains one of open sky and deep, fertile loam. The air here carries the scent of turned earth and dry husks, particularly at dusk when the light turns a bruised, copper gold and the long shadows of the grain silos begin to stretch across the fields.

Elvaston exists as a testament to the agricultural persistence that settled these plains, where the local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the steady, mechanical hum of farm machinery. History here is marked by the slow accumulation of generations who have worked the land, leaving behind a legacy of wood-frame houses and sturdy outbuildings that seem to grow directly from the dirt. Residents often look toward Carthage Lake, just a few miles away, for a change in scenery, or travel toward Hamilton Baseball to find a rare communal stillness away from the unrelenting work of the fields. There is a profound, unadorned integrity to the way Elvaston moves through the year, a place where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the gradual heightening of the crops and the inevitable, frost-tipped arrival of winter.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hamilton Baseball (Local Recreation) — 4.5 mi, 268° W
Wildcat Springs Park (Local Park) — 5.0 mi, 275° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 5.1 mi, 271° W
Marquette & Jolliet Voyage (Monument) — 5.5 mi, 278° W
Kibbe Museum (Museum) — 6.0 mi, 077° E
Historic Carthage Jail (Museum) — 6.0 mi, 076° E
Prairie State Eagle Refuge State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.1 mi, 266° W
Joe Grate Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 6.6 mi, 076° E
Ms Rv Pools 11-22 Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 6.6 mi, 271° W
Hugh Lincoln Cooper (Monument) — 6.8 mi, 268° W
Samuel F Miller House Museum (Museum) — 6.8 mi, 272° W
General Samuel Curtis Statue (Public Artwork) — 6.9 mi, 268° W
George M. Verity (Monument) — 6.9 mi, 267° W
Plaza 3 Cinema (Cinema) — 7.0 mi, 269° W
Lost Canvas Gallery (Gallery) — 7.1 mi, 272° W
Cedar Glen State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.2 mi, 261° W
Redwing Area Access (State Recreation Area) — 10.4 mi, 267° W
Great River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.9 mi, 255° W · 10k acres
Nauvoo State Park (State Park) — 12.0 mi, 325° NW
Weld House Museum (Museum) — 12.7 mi, 327° NW
Nauvoo Martyrdom Museum (Museum) — 12.8 mi, 327° NW
ATSF Depot (Attraction) — 16.5 mi, 348° N
CB&Q Depot (Attraction) — 16.6 mi, 348° N
Ira and Reatha T. Post Wildlife Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 18.8 mi, 080° E
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.3 mi, 219° SW · 3,906 acres
Canton CB&Q Depot (Attraction) — 23.0 mi, 217° SW
Argyle Lake State Park (State Recreation Area) — 23.4 mi, 081° E
Thistle Hills Land and Water Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 28.0 mi, 078° E
Little Theater (Theatre) — 29.2 mi, 008° N
Des Moines County Fair (Attraction) — 29.3 mi, 008° N

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