Liberty Illinois Map
Explore Liberty, 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 Liberty, Illinois
How to Use This Liberty, Illinois Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Liberty, 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 Liberty.
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 | Liberty |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Saline County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.879747 |
| Longitude | -91.106595 |
| Population | 543 |
| Density | 536.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 62946, 62347 |
| Area Code | 618, 217 |
| County Seat | Harrisburg |
| School District | Liberty Community Unit School District 2 |
About Liberty, Illinois
Liberty is a locality in Saline County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 543. The population density is 536.2 people per km². Liberty is located at 39.8797°N, 91.1066°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Liberty is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 62946, 62347.Liberty occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois interior, where the horizon stretches wide across fields that catch the pale, amber light of late afternoon. It lies 19.8 miles east of Marion, IL (from Marion, IL: bearing 92°T), and is situated 2.1 miles southwest of Harrisburg. Shallow basins and gentle swells define the topography here, punctuated by the modest flow of Pankey Branch, which marks the low ground just a mile from the center of the village. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Cave Hill, while the deep, secluded geography of Cochran Hollow remains a quiet reminder of the land’s ancient, glacial carving. The air feels heavy with the scent of turned earth and drying stalks, a stillness that settles over the plains long before the sun dips below the western edge of the sky.
Liberty maintains a steady pulse defined by the cycles of the agricultural calendar, where the prosperity of the season is written in the gold of corn and the emerald depth of soybean rows. This region, having seen the slow passage of pioneers and the steady growth of family-run homesteads, remains grounded in a heritage of labor and resilience that keeps the local economy tied to the soil. Residents often look toward the nearby Tunnel Hill for a brief respite in the open air, finding a sense of scale in the surrounding woodland that contrasts with the domestic order of the streets. Though the Kaskaskia Experimental Forest stands further afield, the influence of the wider, wooded landscape is felt in the quiet, persistent rhythm of life that moves through the village, favoring the deliberate pace of a place that understands the value of waiting for the harvest.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Burton Cave State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.4 mi, 272° W
- Siloam Springs State Park (State Park) — 8.1 mi, 083° E
- Bridge Foundation (Historic Ruins) — 9.2 mi, 090° E
- Hadley Creek (State Recreation Area) — 11.1 mi, 166° S
- Fall Creek Scenic Overlook State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.3 mi, 238° SW
- Boots Bush Park (Local Park) — 13.0 mi, 285° W
- Progress Park (Local Park) — 13.6 mi, 290° W
- Ms Rv Pools 11-22 Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 14.3 mi, 244° SW
- New Philadelphia National Historic Site interpretive kiosk (Monument) — 14.7 mi, 148° SE
- Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 283° W
- All Wars Museum (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 288° W
- Govenor John Wood Statue (Monument) — 16.5 mi, 283° W
- History Museum on the Square (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 283° W
- Scenic Overlook Mark Twain Memorial Bridge (Viewpoint) — 17.5 mi, 232° SW
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens "Mark Twain" Statue (Monument) — 17.5 mi, 232° SW
- Mark Twain Steamboat Pilot (Public Artwork) — 17.5 mi, 229° SW
- Bay Island Conservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 17.6 mi, 236° SW
- Art Gallery 310 (Gallery) — 17.7 mi, 229° SW
- Soulard Access (State Recreation Area) — 18.7 mi, 273° W
- Wakonda State Park (State Park) — 22.3 mi, 291° W
- Dr. J.W. Well Nature Park (Nature Reserve) — 23.1 mi, 258° W
- Naples Mound 8 (Historic Ruins) — 27.5 mi, 118° SE
- Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.6 mi, 091° E · 7,396 acres
- Canton CB&Q Depot (Attraction) — 27.7 mi, 309° NW
- Karl's Movies (Cinema) — 30.0 mi, 174° S
- Great River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.0 mi, 169° S · 10k acres
- John Stoeckley's Reflections of Missouri Gallery (Gallery) — 30.0 mi, 175° S
- Beardstown River Museum (Museum) — 36.9 mi, 075° E
- Kibbe Museum (Museum) — 37.0 mi, 357° N
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About This Liberty Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Liberty, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.879747, -91.106595. 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 Liberty includes the ZIP code (62946, 62347), telephone area code (618, 217), county seat of Saline County (Harrisburg), and school district assignment (Liberty Community Unit School District 2).
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. |
