Explore Lenzburg, 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 Lenzburg, 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 Lenzburg.
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 | Lenzburg |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | St. Clair County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.287271 |
| Longitude | -89.817323 |
| Population | 468 |
| Density | 156.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62255 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| County Seat | Belleville |
| School District | Marissa Community Unit School District 40 |
Lenzburg holds the quiet, steady weight of the Illinois interior, defined by flat horizons that stretch toward the sky until the light turns a bruised, heavy purple at dusk. It lies 18.3 miles east of Waterloo, IL (from Waterloo, IL: bearing 100°T), and is situated 18.4 miles south-southeast of Belleville. Doza Creek carves a thin, insistent line through the local landscape just a mile away, its banks thick with the persistent growth of the prairie floor. Beyond the immediate fields, the subtle rise of Tamarawa Ridge marks the distance, a reminder of the tectonic patience that formed this expanse. Within the village itself, Lenzburg Village Park offers a modest clearing where the wind moves through the grass with a dry, rhythmic rustle, grounding the observer in a space that feels entirely defined by the soil and the season.
Lenzburg emerged from the necessities of the nineteenth century, when the promise of coal and the fertility of the black earth drew families to stake their labor against the elements. The economy here remains tethered to these traditions, a quiet persistence of agriculture and the legacy of regional extraction that shaped the local character into something pragmatic and unadorned. Life moves at the pace of the harvest, far from the frantic hum of the urban grid, where the stillness is only broken by the distant cooling towers near Baldwin Lake. The people here understand the particular geometry of their lives, finding a certain beauty in the way the morning sun flattens the fields and the way the long, straight roads eventually lose themselves in the haze of the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lenzburg, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.287271, -89.817323. 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 Lenzburg includes the ZIP code (62255), telephone area code (217), county seat of St. Clair County (Belleville), and school district assignment (Marissa Community Unit School District 40).
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. |