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Hamburg Illinois Map

Explore Hamburg, 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 Hamburg, Illinois

How to Use This Hamburg, Illinois Map

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

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.

CityHamburg
StateIllinois (IL)
CountyBond County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude39.232342
Longitude-90.715599
Population99
Density73.2 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Codes62262, 62045
Area Code217, 309
County SeatGreenville
School DistrictCalhoun Community Unit School District 40

About Hamburg, Illinois

Hamburg is a locality in Bond County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 99. The population density is 73.2 people per km². Hamburg is located at 39.2323°N, 90.7156°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hamburg is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 62262, 62045.

Hamburg occupies a quiet stretch of land where the horizon is defined by the steady, unyielding geometry of Midwestern fields. It lies 23.1 miles east-northeast of Highland, IL (from Highland, IL: bearing 68°T), and is situated 7.7 miles east-southeast of Greenville. The air here holds the scent of damp earth and drying stalks, a stillness that seems to gather in the low depressions of the soil before drifting toward the water. A mile away, the quiet surface of Armstrong Pond reflects the shifting clouds, while the nearby trickle of Avery Branch cuts a narrow, winding path through the soil, carving subtle depressions into the landscape. On the distant horizon, the silhouette of Pelican Pouch provides a jagged, blue-gray limit to the sky, serving as a reminder of the vast, flat expanse that stretches out toward the horizon.

Hamburg persists through the labor of the seasons, its character shaped by the cyclical demands of the land and the quiet endurance of its people. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of agriculture, a practice that has defined the daily work of residents for generations as they tend to the surrounding soil. Beyond the immediate fields, the Carlyle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area offers a sanctuary for the local ecosystem, preserving a wilder, more tangled version of the regional terrain that contrasts with the orderly rows of the farms. Life in Hamburg moves at a deliberate, measured pace, guided more by the changing light across the plains than by the urgency of the wider world, leaving the inhabitants to find their own meaning in the long, golden afternoons of the harvest.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Hamburg Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 227° SW
  • Swarnes Hill Prairie (Conservation Area) — 0.1 mi, 359° N
  • Hamburg Ferry Access (State Recreation Area) — 0.5 mi, 248° W
  • Prairie Slough Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 251° W
  • Prairie Slough Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 234° SW
  • Osterman Hill Prairies (Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 347° N
  • Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 2.3 mi, 307° NW · 7,659 acres
  • Great River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.4 mi, 318° NW · 10k acres
  • Senate Theatre (Cinema) — 5.9 mi, 218° SW
  • Southern Overlook (Viewpoint) — 5.9 mi, 066° NE
  • Diamond Island (State Recreation Area) — 6.0 mi, 110° E
  • Calhoun County Fairgrounds (Local Recreation) — 6.1 mi, 128° SE
  • Skip Anderson Big Timber Preservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 6.3 mi, 053° NE
  • Center for American Archeology Museum (Museum) — 7.2 mi, 051° NE
  • Kamp Mound Site (Historic Ruins) — 8.6 mi, 036° NE
  • Koster Site (Historic Ruins) — 9.0 mi, 100° E
  • Pool No. 26 - Stump Lake (State Park) — 14.9 mi, 150° SE
  • Cuivre River State Park (State Park) — 15.4 mi, 228° SW
  • Karl's Movies (Cinema) — 23.2 mi, 310° NW
  • John Stoeckley's Reflections of Missouri Gallery (Gallery) — 23.3 mi, 310° NW
  • Mary the Turtle (Public Artwork) — 23.7 mi, 140° SE
  • Raging Rivers Water Park (Attraction) — 24.5 mi, 138° SE
  • 217 Terror Haunted House (Attraction) — 25.3 mi, 046° NE
  • Michelle's Arts and Crafts (Gallery) — 25.9 mi, 163° S
  • Missouri Wing (Museum) — 25.9 mi, 144° SE
  • Elsah Soldiers (Monument) — 27.0 mi, 135° SE
  • New Town Amphitheater (Theatre) — 29.8 mi, 156° SE
  • Katy Trail Completion Bell (Attraction) — 30.7 mi, 138° SE
  • Cancer Awareness Memorial (Monument) — 30.7 mi, 156° SE
  • NGS Monument SC 03 (Monument) — 30.8 mi, 170° S

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About This Hamburg Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hamburg, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.232342, -90.715599. 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 Hamburg includes the ZIP code (62262, 62045), telephone area code (217, 309), county seat of Bond County (Greenville), and school district assignment (Calhoun Community Unit School District 40).

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.