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Girard Illinois Map

Explore Girard, 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 Girard, Illinois

How to Use This Girard, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.446441
Longitude	-89.78093
Population	1,785
Density	737.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62640
Area Code	217
County Seat	Carlinville
School District	North Mac Community Unit School District 34

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About Girard, Illinois

Girard is a locality in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,785. The population density is 737.9 people per km². Girard is located at 39.4464°N, 89.7809°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Girard is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62640.

Girard occupies a flat expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under an enormous, shifting dome of sky. It lies 16.4 miles south-southwest of Chatham, IL (from Chatham, IL: bearing 194°T), and is situated 3.8 miles south of Virden. The land here is defined by a deep, black soil that has supported agriculture for generations, pushing the gaze toward the distant, hazy suggestion of Sand Ridge on the clearest of afternoons. Beyond the town limits, the landscape softens toward the banks of East Fork Otter Creek, where the water cuts a quiet, meandering path through the thickets. Only a mile away, the Sangamon Valley Greenway offers a corridor of native grasses and quiet solitude, while the calm surface of Sunset Lake waits just three miles to the west, mirroring the pale, persistent light of a Midwestern dusk that seems to linger longer here than anywhere else.

Girard retains the quiet, sturdy character of a place built upon the rhythms of the harvest and the persistent industry of the plains. Brick facades and limestone foundations remain as evidence of an era when the rail line dictated the pulse of commerce, turning the local economy toward the movement of grain and the needs of a rural hinterland. Life in Girard moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, steady and unbothered by the frantic acceleration of larger urban grids. There is a particular, austere beauty in the way the shadows lengthen across the grain elevators and the residential streets at evening, transforming the functional architecture of the Midwest into something solemn and enduring.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 0.8 mi, 269° W
Oak Leaf Country Club (Park) — 0.9 mi, 269° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 3.7 mi, 015° N
Virden City Park (Local Park) — 3.8 mi, 011° N
Goode's Woods State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 271° W
Terry Park Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 10.2 mi, 269° W
Carlinville Fairground (Local Recreation) — 10.5 mi, 207° SW
Shrine of Our Lady of the Highways (Attraction) — 10.7 mi, 137° SE
Renner Art Center (Arts Centre) — 12.0 mi, 203° SW
Macoupin County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 12.2 mi, 208° SW
Roberts Cemetery Savanna Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 16.4 mi, 144° SE
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 16.5 mi, 053° NE
Weigh Station Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 16.7 mi, 154° SE
Hagaman Marsh (State Conservation Area) — 18.3 mi, 241° SW
Beaver Dam State Park (State Park) — 18.6 mi, 211° SW
Rotary Sundial (Attraction) — 20.8 mi, 019° N
Selvaggio Historic Arches (Attraction) — 20.8 mi, 019° N
Trutter Museum (Museum) — 20.9 mi, 025° NE
Route 66 Drive In (Cinema) — 21.0 mi, 015° N
Lincoln Memorial (Monument) — 21.3 mi, 024° NE
AMC Classic Springfield 12 (Cinema) — 21.5 mi, 008° N
Impermanent Column (Public Artwork) — 21.5 mi, 023° NE
Malibu Jack's (Theme Park) — 22.5 mi, 010° N
Lauterbach Man Statue (Attraction) — 22.6 mi, 014° N
The Muni (Theatre) — 23.0 mi, 028° NE
Potawatomi Trail of Death - McCoys Mill Encampment (Monument) — 23.2 mi, 000° N
Potawatomi Trail of Death - Island Grove Encampment (Monument) — 23.8 mi, 337° NW
Gallery 1624 (Gallery) — 24.1 mi, 015° N
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Il (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.0 mi, 260° W · 665 acres
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 46.6 mi, 206° SW · 32k acres

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