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Green Oaks Illinois Map

Explore Green Oaks, 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 Green Oaks, Illinois

How to Use This Green Oaks, Illinois Map

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

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	Green Oaks
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Lake County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	42.299987
Longitude	-87.910961
Population	4,128
Density	400.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	60048
Area Code	312, 773
County Seat	Waukegan
School District	Libertyville Community High School District 128

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About Green Oaks, Illinois

Green Oaks is a locality in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,128. The population density is 400.0 people per km². Green Oaks is located at 42.3000°N, 87.9110°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Green Oaks is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 60048.

Green Oaks asserts its presence through a quiet expanse of flat prairie land and thickets that seem to hold the low, pale light of the Midwestern sky. It lies 2.6 miles east of Libertyville, IL (from Libertyville, IL: bearing 79°T), and is situated 5.9 miles south-southwest of Waukegan. The landscape is defined by a subtle, damp reclamation of the earth, where the Atkinson Stormwater Facility functions as a pragmatic anchor for the local ecosystem, managing the runoff that migrates toward the nearby Des Plaines River. Two miles to the east, the surface of Liberty Lake remains a silvered mirror for the clouds, while the persistent wind carries a faint, salt-tinged memory of the air from Waukegan Harbor, thirteen miles to the east. The terrain is neither dramatic nor steep, but rather a measured stretch of ground where the horizon pulls the eye toward the distant, hazy rise of Leahy Hill, grounding Green Oaks in a geography of wide, unhurried space.

Economic life in Green Oaks has evolved from the early patterns of agricultural settlement into a more settled, residential rhythm that favors the preservation of open acreage. Long ago, the land was shaped by the slow retreat of glacial ice, leaving behind a soil that now supports small, private estates and pockets of protected vegetation that echo the character of the Gurnee Woods Forest Preserve. The passage of time here is marked by the shifting colors of the foliage and the seasonal migration of water through the drainage ways, rather than the clamor of heavy industry. People who dwell in Green Oaks often find a specific solace in the way the dusk settles over the fields, turning the grass to a deep, bruised violet and signaling a return to the quiet, domestic permanence that defines the local spirit.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Village Park - Green Oaks (Local Park) — 0.8 mi, 004° N
Independence Grove Forest Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 293° NW
Wilmot Woods Forest Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 270° W
Lambs Farm (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 180° S
Roundout Train Robbery (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 149° SE
The Wells Addition to Dokum Mskoda Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 011° N
Knollwood Club (Park) — 1.9 mi, 148° SE
Lake Bluff Golf Club (Local Recreation) — 2.3 mi, 110° E
Cook Park Playground (Monument) — 2.4 mi, 248° W
Tangley Oaks Woods (State Conservation Area) — 3.0 mi, 103° E
Middlefork Farm (Nature Reserve) — 3.1 mi, 153° SE
Lake Carina Forest Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 3.5 mi, 343° N
Amos Bennett: First African American Settler in Lake County (Monument) — 4.3 mi, 352° N
Viewpoint and Fishing Stand (Viewpoint) — 4.3 mi, 218° SW
Light 1 (Attraction) — 4.3 mi, 085° E
Light 2 (Attraction) — 4.4 mi, 085° E
Sprocket Rockets (Attraction) — 4.7 mi, 347° N
Mission Stage (Theatre) — 4.7 mi, 344° N
Snowshoe Saloon (Theatre) — 4.7 mi, 347° N
Expression Gallery of Fine Art (Gallery) — 4.8 mi, 132° SE
Liberty Ladder Climb (Attraction) — 4.8 mi, 345° N
Legacy Museum (Museum) — 5.0 mi, 346° N
Round Entry Door (Public Artwork) — 5.1 mi, 248° W
Dandelion Art Gallery (Gallery) — 5.7 mi, 045° NE
Waukegan History Museum at the Carnegie (Museum) — 5.9 mi, 045° NE
Perkowitz Art Studio (Gallery) — 6.9 mi, 295° NW
Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park (State Park) — 8.0 mi, 034° NE
Chain O'Lakes State Park (State Park) — 15.3 mi, 308° NW
Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.2 mi, 300° NW · 638 acres

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