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Little Indian Illinois Map

Explore Little Indian, 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 Little Indian, Illinois

How to Use This Little Indian, Illinois Map

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

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	Little Indian
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Cass County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.887548
Longitude	-90.201231
Population	180
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	62691, 62610
Area Code	217
County Seat	Virginia

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About Little Indian, Illinois

Little Indian is a locality in Cass County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Little Indian is located at 39.8875°N, 90.2012°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 62691, 62610.

Little Indian emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of central Illinois as a quiet intersection of sky and soil. It lies 10.7 miles north of Jacksonville, IL (from Jacksonville, IL: bearing 8°T), and is situated 14.8 miles southeast of Beardstown. The landscape surrounding Little Indian is defined by the steady, rhythmic persistence of agriculture, where the earth yields to the long, disciplined lines of corn and soybeans that stretch until they blur into the hazy distance. A mile to the east, the quiet currents of Little Indian Creek carve a modest path through the silt, providing a thin, shaded corridor for the local wildlife. To the north, the elevation shifts only slightly, a subtle tilt toward the distant silhouette of Spunky Ridge, which anchors the far horizon in a smudge of gray-blue earth. The quality of light here, particularly as the sun begins its descent behind the silos, turns the dust motes in the air into a fine, suspended gold, illuminating the immense, unhurried space that defines the regional character.

History in Little Indian remains tethered to the iron rails that once dictated the movement of grain and the pulse of commerce. While the economic life of the region has evolved, the legacy of the nineteenth-century agrarian expansion persists in the sturdy, utilitarian architecture that dots the landscape, standing as a quiet record of generations who worked the deep, black loam. Residents find their recreation in the expansive, wilder stretches of the Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area, a short distance away, where the managed timber and open fields offer a stark contrast to the manicured rows of the surrounding farms. Those seeking the stillness of deeper waters occasionally travel to Fretag Lake, or walk the quiet, eroded edges of Sugar Hollow, where the land reveals the ancient, subtle contours of the prairie. Life in Little Indian maintains a deliberate pace, governed by the turning of the seasons and the cycle of the harvest, far removed from the clamor of the urban grid.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.6 mi, 010° N
Lenz Field & Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 10.2 mi, 199° S
Jake's Point Overlook (Viewpoint) — 10.3 mi, 028° NE
Illinois Theater (Cinema) — 10.6 mi, 188° S
Strawn Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 10.9 mi, 189° S
Woodlawn Farm Underground RR (Historic Ruins) — 11.0 mi, 163° S
Dr. Charles Chandler Memorial (Monument) — 11.1 mi, 015° N
Community Park (Local Park) — 11.5 mi, 188° S
Prairie Land Heritage Museam (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 191° S
Nichols Park (Local Park) — 12.1 mi, 184° S
Sanganois State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.4 mi, 345° N
Beardstown Marsh (Conservation Area) — 13.7 mi, 303° NW
Beardstown Postage Stamp Welcome Mural (Public Artwork) — 15.2 mi, 306° NW
Beardstown River Museum (Museum) — 15.3 mi, 306° NW
Potawatomi Trail of Death - Island Grove Encampment (Monument) — 15.6 mi, 123° SE
Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.3 mi, 280° W · 7,396 acres
Meredosia Refuge Fee (Conservation Area) — 18.5 mi, 275° W
Lincolns New Salem State Park (State Park) — 19.5 mi, 072° E
Theater in the park at New Salem (Theatre) — 19.8 mi, 071° E
Menard County Historical Museum (Museum) — 20.5 mi, 065° NE
Sand Prairie-Scrub Oak (Nature Reserve) — 20.8 mi, 019° N
Potawatomi Trail of Death - McCoys Mill Encampment (Monument) — 23.5 mi, 108° E
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 25.1 mi, 111° E
Long Nine Museum (Museum) — 25.8 mi, 079° E
AMC Classic Springfield 12 (Cinema) — 26.8 mi, 110° E
Naples Mound 8 (Historic Ruins) — 27.3 mi, 241° SW
Malibu Jack's (Theme Park) — 27.6 mi, 107° E
DIM Art House (Gallery) — 27.9 mi, 103° E
Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.9 mi, 011° N · 5,262 acres
Siloam Springs State Park (State Park) — 33.7 mi, 272° W

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