Explore Kane, 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 Kane, 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 Kane.
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 | Kane |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Greene County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.190047 |
| Longitude | -90.353727 |
| Population | 296 |
| Density | 210.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62054 |
| Area Code | 309 |
| County Seat | Carrollton |
| School District | Jersey Community Unit School District 100 |
Kane sits amidst a vast, level expanse where the horizon stretches thin and flat, broken only by the silhouettes of grain elevators and the occasional stand of hardwood timber. It lies 18.5 miles north-northwest of Godfrey, IL (from Godfrey, IL: bearing 331°T), and is situated 5.0 miles north-northwest of Jerseyville. The light here in the late afternoon possesses a peculiar, amber weight, turning the fields of corn and soybean into a shifting mosaic of deep ochre and pale gold. Two miles to the east, the waters of De Arcy Branch trace a quiet, narrow path through the earth, marking a subtle depression in the flatland. To the west, the distant rise of Pea Ridge breaks the monotony of the plains, a faint, blurred line against the sky that suggests a change in the elevation of the world beyond. Three miles away, the land dips into the shadowed, quiet basin of Dobson Hollow, where the air cools and gathers moisture long before the sun finishes its descent.
Kane maintains a steady, deliberate pace, built upon the quiet industry of the soil and the legacy of families who have worked these acres for generations. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, a cycle that dictates the movement of trucks through the center of the grid and the hum of machinery that carries across the fields during the autumn months. Residents often gather four miles away at American Legion Fairground Park, a place that serves as a communal anchor for the surrounding countryside. Five miles out, the quiet surface of Heild Pond reflects the changing seasons, providing a solitary point of stillness in a landscape defined by the expansive, open labor of the plains. Life in Kane is lived in the small spaces between these landmarks, where the history of the region is kept not in books, but in the enduring patterns of work and the deep, seasonal silence that settles over the fields at night.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kane, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.190047, -90.353727. 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 Kane includes the ZIP code (62054), telephone area code (309), county seat of Greene County (Carrollton), and school district assignment (Jersey Community Unit School District 100).
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. |