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Herscher Illinois Map

Explore Herscher, 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 Herscher, Illinois

How to Use This Herscher, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	41.049199
Longitude	-88.097826
Population	1,521
Density	323.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	60941
Area Code	630, 331
County Seat	Kankakee
School District	Herscher Community Unit School District 2

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About Herscher, Illinois

Herscher is a locality in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,521. The population density is 323.9 people per km². Herscher is located at 41.0492°N, 88.0978°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Herscher is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 60941.

Herscher anchors itself upon a vast, level expanse of Illinois prairie where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 13.3 miles west-southwest of Kankakee, IL (from Kankakee, IL: bearing 248°T), and is situated 13.5 miles west-southwest of Bourbonnais. The horizon remains a crisp, unbroken line, save for the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator rising like a sentinel over the fields of corn and soybeans. A mile to the west, the quiet waters of East Branch Horse Creek trace a slow, meandering path through the loam, while the distant, elevated ground of Sand Ridge (historic) haunts the western periphery like a faded memory of a different geological age. During the autumn, the light turns a sharp, pale gold, illuminating the stubble of the harvested fields until the land seems to glow with the stored heat of the long summer.

Herscher traces its endurance to the iron veins of the railroad, which once dictated the flow of commerce and the growth of the local grain trade. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons and the cycle of the soil, maintaining a steady, deliberate pace that ignores the frantic acceleration of the metropolitan centers to the north. Five miles away, the Union Hill Railroad Prairie preserves a vestige of the wild, tallgrass landscape that once defined this entire region before the plow arrived. On quiet evenings, the cooling towers of the Braidwood Power Plant Cooling Pond, located twelve miles to the east, cast a faint, artificial haze against the stars, a reminder of the industrial gravity that exerts a subtle pull on the life of the village.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Goodrich Railroad Prairie (Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 036° NE
Community Park (Local Park) — 8.0 mi, 041° NE
Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.5 mi, 328° NW
Kankakee River State Park (State Conservation Area) — 11.4 mi, 018° N
Kankakee County Museum (Museum) — 12.2 mi, 069° E
Riverfront Park (Local Park) — 12.4 mi, 056° NE
Chief Shauwanasee Memorial (Monument) — 13.2 mi, 028° NE
Soldiers Monument (Monument) — 13.3 mi, 068° E
Flag Memorial (Monument) — 13.3 mi, 068° E
Splash Valley Aquatic Park (Local Recreation) — 13.4 mi, 081° E
Wauponsee Glacial Trail 1 (Local Recreation) — 13.6 mi, 353° N
Route 66 Diners (Attraction) — 14.4 mi, 312° NW
Gardner Jail (Attraction) — 14.4 mi, 312° NW
Kankakee Sands Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 15.2 mi, 345° N
Elvis (Attraction) — 16.0 mi, 339° N
Braidwood Area Historical Society (Museum) — 16.1 mi, 337° NW
Hitts Siding Prairie Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 17.8 mi, 347° N
Gemini Giant (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 351° N
Wilmington Historical Society Building (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 352° N
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 19.4 mi, 354° N · 18k acres
Illinois and Michigan Canal State Trail (State Recreation Area) — 24.3 mi, 342° N
Grundy County Historical Society (Museum) — 27.3 mi, 321° NW
Morris Guild Theater Playhouse (Theatre) — 27.3 mi, 321° NW
Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge And Conservation Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.1 mi, 095° E · 132 acres
Livingston County War Museum (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 247° SW
Louis Jolliet (Public Artwork) — 32.9 mi, 002° N
Illinois State Museum-Lockport Gallery (Gallery) — 37.3 mi, 003° N
3rd Floor Gallery (Gallery) — 37.5 mi, 003° N
Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 46.4 mi, 047° NE · 11k acres
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 65.5 mi, 272° W · 13k acres

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