Explore Green Valley, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Green Valley, 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 Valley.
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 Valley |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Tazewell County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.407541 |
| Longitude | -89.642883 |
| Population | 630 |
| Density | 808.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61534 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| County Seat | Pekin |
| School District | Midwest Central Community Unit School District 191 |
Green Valley asserts itself as a quiet expanse of flat, fertile earth where the sky holds a vast and heavy dominion over the horizon. It lies 11.1 miles south of Pekin, IL (from Pekin, IL: bearing 181°T), and is situated 20.0 miles south of Peoria. Dry Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the fields just two miles away, its waters often sluggish beneath the shade of overhanging willows that lean toward the silt. Beyond the immediate flatlands, the elevation shifts toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Red Oak Ridge, which anchors the western view like a low, slumbering spine. Residents often gather at Green Valley Centennial Park, a central space where the grass grows thick and the air carries the dry, sweet scent of disturbed soil and impending summer heat. Light here possesses a singular clarity, bleaching the color from the midday sky until the afternoon sun catches the dust of the plains, turning the atmosphere into a pale, translucent amber.
Green Valley sustains a rhythm dictated by the turning of the seasons and the meticulous cycles of the agricultural calendar. The surrounding landscape remains an enduring monument to the labor of the plow, with expansive fields of corn and soybeans forming a grid of emerald and gold that stretches toward the horizon. Though the quiet waters of Venado Grande Lake sit seven miles away, the identity of the place is bound to the productivity of the soil rather than the leisure of the water. History here is written in the steel of local machinery and the weathered siding of barns that have watched over the plains for generations, standing as silent observers to the changing demands of the economy. Life in Green Valley moves with a steady, deliberate pace, grounded by the steady hum of tractors during the harvest and the deep, stillness of the winter months when the frost settles over the fields and the land waits, patient and unbroken, for the return of the thaw.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Green Valley, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.407541, -89.642883. 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 Green Valley includes the ZIP code (61534), telephone area code (815), county seat of Tazewell County (Pekin), and school district assignment (Midwest Central Community Unit School District 191).
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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |