Explore Hainesville, 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 Hainesville, 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 Hainesville.
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 | Hainesville |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Lake County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 42.336184 |
| Longitude | -88.073446 |
| Population | 3,546 |
| Density | 741.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 60030, 60073 |
| Area Code | 312, 773 |
| County Seat | Waukegan |
| School District | Grayslake Consolidated Community School District 46 |
Hainesville unfolds across the flat, expansive reach of the prairie, where the horizon holds a heavy, Midwestern stillness that seems to gather the light of the setting sun into long, amber shadows. It lies 1.3 miles west of Grayslake, IL (from Grayslake, IL: bearing 272°T), and is situated 2.2 miles south-southeast of Round Lake Beach. The landscape is defined by the gentle, persistent presence of Cranberry Lake, its surface often mirroring the gray-blue sky, while the proximity of Stanton Bay lends the air a faint, salt-tinged crispness that arrives on the breeze from the east. Squaw Creek carves a quiet, meandering path just a mile away, threading through the terrain with a low, rhythmic murmur that persists even when the wind dies down. The Village Of Hainesville Open Space serves as the primary anchor for this geography, preserving a stretch of native grasses and quiet earth that keeps the encroaching reach of the grid at bay. On clear, sharp evenings, the distant silhouette of Bald Knob emerges as a faint, jagged ink-stroke against the sky, a reminder of the rising elevations that lie far beyond the immediate, level reach of the plains.
History in Hainesville remains tethered to the slow, deliberate pulse of agricultural roots that have gradually shifted into the modern, residential character of the region. The economy moves with the steady, predictable cadence of commuters and local enterprise, favoring a quiet stability over the clamor of industrial expansion. Life here is measured by the changing seasons, from the deep, frozen silence of winter to the vibrant, green resurgence that ripples through the local flora. Residents often find their way to the Tamarack View Trail for a solitary walk, finding a sense of clarity in the movement of the seasons, or they watch the light fade over the water near Cedar Island, where the world feels momentarily suspended. There is a profound, unadorned honesty in the way Hainesville occupies its place, a calm persistence that values the simple weight of the land and the quiet, steady passage of time.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hainesville, Illinois. Coordinates: 42.336184, -88.073446. 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 Hainesville includes the ZIP code (60030, 60073), telephone area code (312, 773), county seat of Lake County (Waukegan), and school district assignment (Grayslake Consolidated Community School District 46).
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. |