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Lancaster Illinois Map

Explore Lancaster, 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 Lancaster, Illinois

How to Use This Lancaster, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.580316
Longitude	-89.837332
Density	N/A /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	62863, 61533, 62852
Area Code	815, 618
County Seat	Peoria

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About Lancaster, Illinois

Lancaster is a locality in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Lancaster is located at 40.5803°N, 89.8373°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 62863, 61533, 62852.

Lancaster stretches across a flat, expansive horizon where the Hinkle Branch carves a quiet, persistent path through the silty earth. It lies 10.4 miles west of Pekin, IL (from Pekin, IL: bearing 275°T), and is situated 15.2 miles west-southwest of Peoria. The land here is defined by the steady work of agriculture, where the endless rows of corn and soybeans mirror the grid of the sky until they meet the distant, hazy silhouette of Hoxie Ridge. To the west, the water of Brown Slough gathers in the low-lying basins, providing a sanctuary for migratory birds that drift above the fields in the changing light. The air carries the scent of turned soil and dry grass, a crisp, inland quality that sharpens as the sun dips behind the plains, casting long, lean shadows across the fields that seem to hold the heat of the day long after dusk.

Lancaster serves as a waypoint for the rhythms of the rural interior, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of harvest and the persistence of the regional soil. Life here is measured by the seasonal shift of the crops and the quiet maintenance of the roads that lead toward the Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area, a expanse of protected wetlands that marks the town’s respect for the local ecology. History here is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring utility of the grain elevators and the brick storefronts that have weathered generations of Midwestern winters. While the pace of life remains deliberate, the proximity to the natural silence of the plains gives Lancaster a grounded, solitary character, a place where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the distant, rhythmic hum of machinery echoing from the fields.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 181° S
Banner Marsh Fish and Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 3.2 mi, 204° SW
Spring Lake (State Recreation Area) — 4.8 mi, 156° SE
Lake Camelot (Park) — 5.2 mi, 050° NE
Butler Haynes Park (Local Park) — 5.8 mi, 093° E
Racoon Lakes (Local Recreation) — 5.9 mi, 079° E
Prairie Hills Wetland Reserve (Conservation Area) — 6.1 mi, 217° SW
Rice Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 208° SW
Canton Waterworks (State Recreation Area) — 7.0 mi, 262° W
Canton Lake (Local Park) — 7.1 mi, 263° W
Tazewell County Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 094° E
29th U.s. Colored Infantry Memorial (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 094° E
Jake Wolf Memorial Fish Hatchery (Museum) — 10.8 mi, 196° S
Pekin Native Everett McKinley Dirksen (Public Artwork) — 10.9 mi, 095° E
Sundance (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 096° E
Hazel and Bill Rutherford's Wildlife Prairie Park (Park) — 11.2 mi, 019° N
Dragon Stadium (Stadium) — 11.3 mi, 097° E
Wildlife Prairie Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 11.9 mi, 026° NE
Farmington Historical Museum (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 313° NW
Fort Crevecoeur monument (Monument) — 13.0 mi, 069° E
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.6 mi, 204° SW · 13k acres
Studios on Sheridan (Gallery) — 14.7 mi, 056° NE
Arts Partners (Gallery) — 14.8 mi, 056° NE
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria (Arts Centre) — 14.9 mi, 060° NE
Giant Screen Theater (Cinema) — 15.0 mi, 060° NE
Dome Planetarium (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 060° NE
Fondulac Drive Lookout 1 (Viewpoint) — 15.3 mi, 066° NE
Lorado Taft Museum (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 334° NW
Eastlight Theatre (Theatre) — 15.9 mi, 067° NE
Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.4 mi, 220° SW · 5,262 acres

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