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Ipava Illinois Map

Explore Ipava, 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 Ipava, Illinois

How to Use This Ipava, Illinois Map

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

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.

CityIpava
StateIllinois (IL)
CountyFulton County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude40.351432
Longitude-90.324568
Population447
Density644.0 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code61441
Area Code815
County SeatLewistown
School DistrictV.I.T. Community Unit School District 2

About Ipava, Illinois

Ipava is a locality in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 447. The population density is 644.0 people per km². Ipava is located at 40.3514°N, 90.3246°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ipava is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61441.

Ipava occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that feels immense and unburdened. It lies 19.7 miles east-southeast of Macomb, IL (from Macomb, IL: bearing 112°T), and is situated 14.3 miles west-northwest of Havana. The land here is defined by the steady, rhythmic persistence of the soil, marked by the nearby presence of Jake Creek as it carves a slow, shallow path through the earth. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain maintains a subtle, persistent weight, occasionally punctuated by the distant, soft rise of Dyers Mound, which sits thirteen miles away as a faint indentation against the clouds. Even the light here possesses a particular character, catching the dust of the fields at dusk to turn the air a bruised, golden violet that lingers long after the sun has slipped beneath the stalks of corn.

Camp Ellis occupies the immediate landscape, its grounds serving as a silent, expansive reminder of the years when the local rhythm was dictated by the exigencies of a different era. The history of Ipava remains tethered to this vast, open space, which once acted as a training center and now rests in a profound, grassy stillness that contrasts with the surrounding agricultural industry. Life in Ipava moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, driven by the planting and harvest cycles that dictate the economy of these plains. Residents look toward the distant Big Hollow or the waters of Stickey Lake, twelve miles off, as markers in a geography that values the endurance of the land over the frantic pace of the outside world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Camp Ellis (Private Recreation) — 0.4 mi, 329° NW
  • Table Grove West Park (Local Park) — 5.6 mi, 280° W
  • Izaac Walton Park (Local Park) — 8.0 mi, 167° S
  • Fulton County Fairgrounds (Local Recreation) — 9.0 mi, 076° E
  • Living Springs Camp (Private Recreation) — 9.1 mi, 054° NE
  • Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.3 mi, 093° E · 5,262 acres
  • Ogden-Fettie Site (Historic Ruins) — 10.9 mi, 094° E
  • Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge Fee (Conservation Area) — 11.0 mi, 091° E
  • Anderson Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.1 mi, 142° SE
  • Rockwell Mound (Historic Ruins) — 14.1 mi, 103° E
  • Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.4 mi, 089° E · 13k acres
  • Sanganois State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.7 mi, 184° S
  • "dirty Dog" Rocky Statue (Public Artwork) — 16.1 mi, 287° W
  • Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 16.5 mi, 325° NW
  • Sand Prairie-Scrub Oak (Nature Reserve) — 18.1 mi, 133° SE
  • Fellheimer Auditorium (Theatre) — 19.4 mi, 289° W
  • West Central Illinois Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 19.6 mi, 292° W
  • Project Dance Company (Arts Centre) — 19.6 mi, 292° W
  • Looking for Lincoln (Monument) — 19.7 mi, 292° W
  • Western Illinois Museum (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 292° W
  • Abraham Lincoln Plaque (Monument) — 19.7 mi, 292° W
  • McKee Softball Stadium (Stadium) — 20.7 mi, 294° NW
  • Alfred D. Boyer Stadium (Stadium) — 20.8 mi, 294° NW
  • Spring Lake (State Recreation Area) — 22.7 mi, 074° E
  • Thistle Hills Land and Water Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 22.9 mi, 292° W
  • Jake Wolf Memorial Fish Hatchery (Museum) — 23.4 mi, 076° E
  • Beardstown River Museum (Museum) — 23.8 mi, 194° S
  • Argyle Lake State Park (State Recreation Area) — 24.7 mi, 286° W
  • Ingersoll Centennial Chapel (Theatre) — 24.9 mi, 000° N
  • Jake's Point Overlook (Viewpoint) — 25.6 mi, 154° SE

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About This Ipava Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ipava, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.351432, -90.324568. 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 Ipava includes the ZIP code (61441), telephone area code (815), county seat of Fulton County (Lewistown), and school district assignment (V.I.T. Community Unit School District 2).

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.