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Joppa Illinois Map

Explore Joppa, 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 Joppa, Illinois

How to Use This Joppa, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	37.206442
Longitude	-88.844782
Population	350
Density	278.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62953
Area Code	618
County Seat	Metropolis
School District	Joppa-Maple Grove Unit District 38

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About Joppa, Illinois

Joppa is a locality in Massac County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 350. The population density is 278.1 people per km². Joppa is located at 37.2064°N, 88.8448°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Joppa is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62953.

Joppa sits upon a low, industrious shelf of land where the persistent, muddy flow of Bayou Creek carves a quiet path through the earth. It lies 36.5 miles south of Marion, IL (from Marion, IL: bearing 172°T), and is situated 7.3 miles west-northwest of Metropolis. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that clings to the skin, a signature of the expansive, flat bottomlands that stretch toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Gray Ridge on the horizon. Only two miles distant, the waters of Crawford Lake offer a cool, reflective reprieve from the heat, while the nearby West Kentucky Wildlife Management Area acts as a sanctuary where the tall, swaying grasses and dense thickets remain largely undisturbed by the steady hum of mechanical labor. Light at dusk often settles across these fields in bruised shades of violet and ochre, casting long, stark shadows that sharpen the edges of the grain silos and the rusted, skeletal remains of old equipment abandoned to the weeds.

Industrial enterprise has long dictated the pulse of Joppa, defining its character through the operation of power plants and the heavy movement of freight that keeps the local economy tethered to the movement of raw materials. The architecture here favors utility over ornament, with sturdy, utilitarian buildings standing in silent vigil against the relentless growth of the surrounding vegetation. Generations of residents have organized their lives around the cycles of the plant, finding a rhythm in the shift changes and the distant, rhythmic grinding of machinery that echoes across the flat plains. There is a profound, unvarnished honesty in the way the local streets meet the encroaching wild, where the intersection of human industry and the slow, deliberate pace of the natural world creates a landscape that asks nothing of the traveler, yet reveals everything to those who look closely at the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

West Kentucky Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 141° SE
Mermet Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 006° N
Lino Laird Ravine (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 114° SE
Mermet Swamp Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 3.0 mi, 018° N
Metropolis Sports Park (Local Recreation) — 7.1 mi, 111° E
Superman Museum & Gift Shop (Museum) — 7.2 mi, 121° SE
Lois Lane Statue (Attraction) — 7.2 mi, 120° SE
Cache River Wetlands Fee (Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 334° NW
George Rodgers Clark Statue (Public Artwork) — 8.5 mi, 121° SE
Fort Massac (Attraction) — 8.5 mi, 121° SE
Grassy Slough Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 9.1 mi, 323° NW
Jean Farwell Overloop (Viewpoint) — 9.4 mi, 321° NW
Tunnel Hill (State Recreation Area) — 9.7 mi, 330° NW
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 10.2 mi, 067° NE · 274k acres
Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.1 mi, 307° NW · 33k acres
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Il (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.5 mi, 312° NW · 665 acres
Noble Park Amphitheater (Theatre) — 13.9 mi, 126° SE
Trail of Tears Memorial (Monument) — 14.8 mi, 351° N
Lloyd Tilghman Memorial (Monument) — 15.1 mi, 125° SE
Bricolage Art Collective (Gallery) — 16.0 mi, 121° SE
Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 16.0 mi, 122° SE
Market House Museum (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 121° SE
John Bridges Tavern Location (Historic Ruins) — 18.4 mi, 329° NW
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 19.2 mi, 355° N · 7,712 acres
Bulge Hole Ecological Area (Attraction) — 20.1 mi, 353° N
Schwegman Ecological Area (Attraction) — 20.7 mi, 354° N
Burial Mound (Historic Ruins) — 21.2 mi, 220° SW
GEM Theatre (Cinema) — 22.8 mi, 231° SW
Lusk Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 25.6 mi, 037° NE · 6,632 acres
Burden Falls Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 25.9 mi, 023° NE · 3,740 acres

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