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Herod Illinois Map

Explore Herod, 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 Herod, Illinois

How to Use This Herod, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	37.580327
Longitude	-88.436155
Population	280
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	62947
Area Code	618
County Seat	Golconda

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About Herod, Illinois

Herod is a locality in Pope County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Herod is located at 37.5803°N, 88.4362°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62947.

Herod emerges from the dense, tangled embrace of the Shawnee National Forest as a quiet clearing where the earth hums with the slow, deliberate pulse of the Southern Illinois interior. It lies 29.1 miles east-southeast of Marion, IL (from Marion, IL: bearing 111°T), and is situated 12.3 miles south-southeast of Harrisburg. Gibbons Creek carves a thin, reflective silver line through the verdant landscape, its waters pulling away from the rugged rise of Williams Hill and descending toward the limestone shadows of Gyp Williams Hollow. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness at dusk, when the light turns the color of bruised plums and the Kaskaskia Experimental Forest, only a few miles distant, breathes a cool, pine-scented draft over the fields. Even the vast, open sky seems to press closer to the ground, grounding the horizon in a perpetual state of transition between the dense timber and the encroaching wild.

Herod maintains a solitude earned through generations of labor carved from the stubborn, rocky soil and the deep timberlands that once defined the regional frontier. Economic life remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, shifting between the cycles of the forest and the slow, steady maintenance of the backroads that wind toward the River to River Trail. There is a distinct, unvarnished character to the landscape, shaped by the isolation of the hills and the long memory of those who worked the local mines and woods. While the modern world moves with a frantic, digitized pace, Herod remains anchored in the physical reality of the earth, where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the gradual change of the seasons and the quiet persistence of the wilderness encroaching upon the edges of the porch light.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 0.3 mi, 360° N · 274k acres
Gibbons Creek Barrens State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.3 mi, 358° N
Herod Cave (Attraction) — 0.4 mi, 304° NW
Garden Of The Gods Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 0.4 mi, 023° NE · 3,978 acres
Lusk Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 4.1 mi, 229° SW · 6,632 acres
North Central Experiment Station Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 4.3 mi, 125° SE
Buzzard Roost (Viewpoint) — 4.5 mi, 072° E
Dennison Hollow Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 4.6 mi, 000° N
Stoneface Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 5.4 mi, 000° N
University Of Illinois Experimental Demonstration Area Experimental Research Area (Recreation Easement) — 5.6 mi, 092° E
Old Wall (Historic Ruins) — 7.2 mi, 232° SW
Saline County State Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.2 mi, 017° N
Cheif Tecumseh Statue (Public Artwork) — 8.1 mi, 017° N
Pounds Hollow Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 8.8 mi, 080° E
War Bluff Valley Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 9.8 mi, 199° S
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 10.2 mi, 140° SE · 7,712 acres
Carrier Mills Archaeological District (Historic Ruins) — 11.3 mi, 298° NW
Tunnel Hill (State Recreation Area) — 11.3 mi, 326° NW
Harrisburg Remodeling (Attraction) — 12.0 mi, 330° NW
Army Supply Store (Attraction) — 12.1 mi, 308° NW
Fluorspar Miners Memorial (Monument) — 12.2 mi, 156° SE
Harrisburg Daily Register (Attraction) — 12.2 mi, 332° NW
Lakeview War Memorial (Monument) — 12.4 mi, 306° NW
Gary Jones Memorial (Monument) — 12.5 mi, 306° NW
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.4 mi, 280° W · 91k acres
Superman Museum & Gift Shop (Museum) — 33.7 mi, 209° SW
Martha's Theatre (Theatre) — 33.8 mi, 287° W
Bricolage Art Collective (Gallery) — 35.2 mi, 194° S
Market House Museum (Museum) — 35.2 mi, 194° S
Noble Park Amphitheater (Theatre) — 35.9 mi, 198° S

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