Explore Hopedale, 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 Hopedale, 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 Hopedale.
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 | Hopedale |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Tazewell County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.420874 |
| Longitude | -89.41454 |
| Population | 830 |
| Density | 363.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61747 |
| Area Code | 309 |
| County Seat | Pekin |
| School District | Olympia Community Unit School District 16 |
Hopedale emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Illinois prairie, a landscape defined by the relentless geometry of corn and soybean fields that stretch until they blur into the sky. It lies 13.5 miles south of Morton, IL (from Morton, IL: bearing 170°T), and is situated 8.4 miles south-southeast of Tremont. Indian Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the earth nearby, its banks fringed with thickets of brush that catch the morning mist before it burns away under the pale, Midwestern light. Five miles away, the quiet surface of Venado Grande Lake reflects the shifting clouds, offering a stillness that seems to permeate the very soil. At the edge of the residential grid, Hopedale Park provides a green anchor, its open lawns a reprieve from the regimented rows of the surrounding agricultural expanse. To the distant west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Red Oak Ridge haunts the skyline, a reminder of a geological architecture far older than the plow.
Hopedale remains a place where the pulse of the regional economy is synchronized with the seasonal cycle of the harvest and the steady movement of grain through local elevators. The physical character of the streets—lined with sturdy brick structures that have weathered decades of wind—speaks to a history anchored in the labor of the plains, where the distance from any coastline renders the air dry and sharp. Life in Hopedale proceeds with a deliberate, unadorned pace, characterized by the hum of machinery during the long, golden hours of autumn and the quiet, snow-dusted stillness of the winter months. Residents move through the day with a grounded awareness of the land, finding a particular beauty in the way the twilight deepens the color of the fallow fields, turning the earth a bruised, velvet purple before the stars assert themselves over the open flatlands.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hopedale, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.420874, -89.41454. 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 Hopedale includes the ZIP code (61747), telephone area code (309), county seat of Tazewell County (Pekin), and school district assignment (Olympia Community Unit School District 16).
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. |