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Ludlow Illinois Map

Explore Ludlow, 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 Ludlow, Illinois

How to Use This Ludlow, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.386979
Longitude	-88.127544
Population	308
Density	299.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	60949
Area Code	630, 331
County Seat	Urbana
School District	Ludlow Community Consolidated School District 142

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About Ludlow, Illinois

Ludlow is a locality in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 308. The population density is 299.5 people per km². Ludlow is located at 40.3870°N, 88.1275°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ludlow is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 60949.

Ludlow rises from the expansive, flat horizon of the Illinois prairie, a place where the sky commands a vast and heavy presence over the earth. It lies 5.6 miles north-northeast of Rantoul, IL (from Rantoul, IL: bearing 15°T), and is situated 5.3 miles south-southwest of Paxton. The landscape around Ludlow is defined by the rigorous geometry of agriculture, where long, straight roads divide the deep, dark soil into a grid of green and gold. To the west, the subtle elevation of Yankee Ridge marks the distant edge of the horizon, a faint ripple against the sunset, while the nearby Big Four Ditch cuts a quiet, utilitarian path through the fields, channeling the rains that nourish the seasonal crops. In the quiet hours of dusk, the light here turns a bruised violet, casting long, thin shadows that stretch across the open plains as the air cools and settles into the stillness of the interior flatlands.

Agriculture remains the pulse of Ludlow, an economy bound to the cycle of planting and harvest that has defined the character of these plains since the early settlers first broke the stubborn sod. While the bustle of larger centers exists elsewhere, life here follows the slow, deliberate pace of the machine and the seasons, punctuated by the occasional excursion to Brookhill Park for a moment of respite beneath the canopy. History lingers in the functional architecture of the grain elevators that stand like sentinels above the town, and though the University of Illinois Experimental Forest remains seventeen miles away as a testament to regional research, the spirit of the land is found in the local fields. Even the distant waters of Widner Lake reflect the same wide, unobstructed sky, grounding the residents in a landscape that values the steady, quiet work of the soil above all else.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Brookhill Park (Local Park) — 3.1 mi, 179° S
Perdueville State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.9 mi, 287° W
Maplewood Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 4.4 mi, 183° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 5.2 mi, 013° N
Bill Seeber Sports Complex & Aquatic Center (Local Recreation) — 6.7 mi, 193° S
Middle Fork Land Acquisition Projec (Local Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 086° E
Gifford War Memorial (Monument) — 8.3 mi, 137° SE
Tomlinson Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 9.9 mi, 102° E
Herschel Workman State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.7 mi, 065° NE
Mr. Big Beatle Finds His Way (Public Artwork) — 18.5 mi, 194° S
The Gilbert Gallery (Gallery) — 19.4 mi, 193° S
Cinema Gallery (Gallery) — 19.4 mi, 193° S
Yingying Zhang Memorial Garden (Monument) — 19.4 mi, 195° S
Giertz Gallery (Gallery) — 19.6 mi, 206° SW
Staerkel Planetarium (Museum) — 19.6 mi, 206° SW
Parkland Theatre (Theatre) — 19.6 mi, 206° SW
The American's Creed (Monument) — 19.6 mi, 199° S
Carl R. Woese Museum (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 195° S
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music (Museum) — 20.3 mi, 196° S
Krannert Art Museum (Museum) — 20.4 mi, 196° S
Horseshoe Bottom Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 22.5 mi, 119° SE
Homer Lake Interpretive Center (Museum) — 23.4 mi, 161° S
Arrowsmith Battle Ground (Registered Battlefield) — 24.4 mi, 278° W
Kickapoo State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 24.5 mi, 128° SE
Peck's Point (Viewpoint) — 26.4 mi, 129° SE
AMC Classic Village Mall 6 (Cinema) — 30.2 mi, 119° SE
Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge And Conservation Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 52.6 mi, 035° NE · 132 acres
Shades State Park (State Park) — 61.7 mi, 120° SE
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 65.0 mi, 359° N · 18k acres

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