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Knollwood Illinois Map

Explore Knollwood, 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 Knollwood, Illinois

How to Use This Knollwood, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	42.284584
Longitude	-87.879317
Population	2,121
Density	1353.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	62684, 60044
Area Code	217, 312, 773
County Seat	Waukegan
School District	Lake Bluff Elementary School District 65

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About Knollwood, Illinois

Knollwood is a locality in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,121. The population density is 1353.6 people per km². Knollwood is located at 42.2846°N, 87.8793°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 62684, 60044.

Knollwood anchors itself upon the flat, wide expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 2.4 miles southwest of Great Lakes, IL (from Great Lakes, IL: bearing 229°T), and is situated 5.7 miles south-southwest of Waukegan. The terrain here is defined by the steady, modest pulse of the Skokie River, which carves a narrow, winding path through the heavy soil, its banks often thick with the scent of damp silt and turning leaves. While the horizon remains largely unbroken, the land holds the quiet gravity of the Midwest, punctuated by the curated greenery of Knollwood Park, where the light at dusk catches the long grasses and turns them to pale copper. Though twelve miles removed from the open coastline, the air carries a subtle, saline memory of the wind moving off Waukegan Harbor, a reminder of the vast, shifting waters that define the regional climate.

History in Knollwood is measured not in monuments, but in the steady accretion of suburban rhythms and the quiet expansion of the local economy. The proximity to Liberty Lake offers a stillness that contrasts with the industrious nature of the surrounding corridor, where the legacy of manufacturing and transit has long dictated the flow of labor and trade. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that values the routine, from the seasonal cycles of the woods to the persistent hum of commerce that connects these neighborhoods to the wider grid. Even as the Gurnee Woods Forest Preserve looms eight miles away as a dark, dense bastion of older growth, Knollwood remains a place of deliberate order, where the intersection of human enterprise and the stubborn, flat landscape creates a singular, grounded sense of belonging.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Knollwood Club (Park) — 0.3 mi, 180° S
Middlefork Savanna Forest Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 227° SW
Lake Bluff Golf Club (Local Recreation) — 0.6 mi, 067° NE
Roundout Train Robbery (Monument) — 0.9 mi, 249° W
Skokie River Prairie Reserve (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 126° SE
Oriole Grove Forest Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 137° SE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 161° S
Tangley Oaks Woods (State Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 073° E
Middlefork Farm (Nature Reserve) — 1.7 mi, 187° S
Blair Woods (State Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 074° E
Expression Gallery of Fine Art (Gallery) — 2.9 mi, 138° SE
Light 1 (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 062° NE
Light 2 (Attraction) — 3.2 mi, 062° NE
Dr. Seuss 99th Commencement Poem (Monument) — 3.5 mi, 133° SE
Allan Carr Theater (Theatre) — 3.8 mi, 136° SE
Cook Park Playground (Monument) — 3.9 mi, 273° W
Viewpoint and Fishing Stand (Viewpoint) — 4.9 mi, 241° SW
Independence Grove (Nature Reserve) — 4.9 mi, 310° NW
Orlin Trapp Auditorium (Theatre) — 5.6 mi, 009° N
Dandelion Art Gallery (Gallery) — 5.6 mi, 026° NE
Finger Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 5.7 mi, 025° NE
Waukegan History Museum at the Carnegie (Museum) — 5.8 mi, 026° NE
Sprocket Rockets (Attraction) — 6.3 mi, 335° NW
Liberty Ladder Climb (Attraction) — 6.4 mi, 334° NW
Legacy Museum (Museum) — 6.5 mi, 334° NW
Jack Benny Center For The Arts (Arts Centre) — 7.5 mi, 019° N
Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park (State Park) — 8.1 mi, 024° NE
Chain O'Lakes State Park (State Park) — 17.2 mi, 307° NW
Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.1 mi, 300° NW · 638 acres

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