Floraville Illinois Map

About Floraville, Illinois

Floraville is a locality in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 49. The population density is 239.5 people per km². Floraville is located at 38.3764°N, 90.0562°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62298.

Floraville occupies a wide expanse of the Illinois interior, where the horizon stretches flat and heavy under a sky that seems to hold the weight of the coming season. It lies 5.8 miles east-northeast of Waterloo, IL (from Waterloo, IL: bearing 61°T), and is situated 9.1 miles east-southeast of Columbia. Prairie du Long Creek traces a slow, muddy path through the fields nearby, its banks thick with brush and the persistent dampness of the lowlands. Far to the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Tamarawa Ridge marks the limit of the visible world, standing against the dusk like a blunt serrated edge. When the light fails, the air cools rapidly, settling over the broad, dark furrows of the earth and the quiet surface of Smithton Sportmans Club Lake, which remains a still, dark mirror for the passing clouds. The landscape here is defined by this immense, unblinking openness, a vast stretch of soil that demands a steady, quiet endurance from everything that takes root within its reach.

Floraville emerged from the industrious patterns of agricultural settlement, its character forged by the seasonal cycles of corn and soybean production that dictate the pace of life. The economy remains tethered to these cycles, with the hum of machinery often punctuating the stillness during harvest, a sound that carries far across the open plains. Residents move with a deliberate, measured gravity, often finding their way to the County Farm and Nature Park to observe the slow transition of the seasons in the unmanicured woods. Beyond the immediate reach of the local roads, the topographical dip of Broad Hollow provides a slight, sheltered variation in the otherwise level plain, a place where the wind loses some of its force. History here is not written in grand monuments but in the persistent, repetitive labor of those who work the grid of the land, keeping the legacy of the region tied to the fertility of the soil and the quiet gravity of the Midwest.

About This Floraville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Floraville, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.37644, -90.056219. 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 Floraville includes the ZIP code (62298), telephone area code (217), county seat of St. Clair County (Belleville), and school district assignment (Freeburg Community High School District 77).

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.