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Maeystown Illinois Map

Explore Maeystown, 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 Maeystown, Illinois

How to Use This Maeystown, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	38.224776
Longitude	-90.233449
Population	150
Density	194.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	62244, 62256
Area Code	217
County Seat	Waterloo
School District	Valmeyer Community Unit School District 3

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About Maeystown, Illinois

Maeystown is a locality in Monroe County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 150. The population density is 194.3 people per km². Maeystown is located at 38.2248°N, 90.2334°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Maeystown is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 62244, 62256.

Maeystown emerges from the limestone bluffs like a deliberate arrangement of stone and timber, anchored firmly in the soil of the Illinois interior. It lies 8.9 miles south-southwest of Waterloo, IL (from Waterloo, IL: bearing 211°T), and is situated 8.8 miles east of Festus. Maeystown Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the village, its steady, low-volume flow providing a constant, muted soundtrack to the daily movement of light across the valley floor. To the west, the horizon catches the irregular, jagged silhouette of McMullen Ridge, a distant boundary that dictates the weather patterns and the slow, heavy accumulation of afternoon shadows. Beyond the immediate architecture of the village, the landscape shifts into the expansive, unyielding geometry of the prairie, broken only by the sheltered reaches of Morrison Hollow or the quiet, still perimeter of Lake Loudel. At Chalfin Bridge Hill Prairie, the native grasses bend in unison under the weight of a Midwestern wind, revealing the deep, ancient fertility of a landscape that has long resisted the frantic pace of the outside world.

German settlers established the foundations of Maeystown in the nineteenth century, choosing the site for the enduring stability of its limestone deposits and the reliable proximity of the water. The local economy persists as a quiet negotiation between the preservation of these heritage structures and a modest, land-based productivity that echoes the agrarian rhythms of the region. Visitors often find the village functioning as a living archive, where the meticulous preservation of stone mills and brick facades serves as a physical record of a labor-intensive past. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured cadence, stripped of the synthetic urgency found in denser corridors of the state. It is a place where the economy of scale is secondary to the economy of maintenance, a quiet assertion that the most vital work is often the preservation of what has already been built.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Chalfin Bridge Hill Prairie (Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 198° S
Madonnaville Cave (Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 007° N
Fults Hill Prairie State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 154° SE
Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.1 mi, 214° SW · 16k acres
Truman Access (State Recreation Area) — 6.2 mi, 197° S
Lakeview Park (Local Park) — 6.8 mi, 032° NE
Waterloo Sportsman's Club (Park) — 6.9 mi, 077° E
World War One Doughboy (Public Artwork) — 7.6 mi, 031° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 7.9 mi, 264° W
Camp Vandeventer (State Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 009° N
Prairie du Rocher Precinct (State Park) — 10.4 mi, 157° SE
Red Bud Area Museum (Museum) — 13.0 mi, 094° E
Modoc Rock Shelter National Historic Site (Historic Ruins) — 14.5 mi, 140° SE
Bob's Memorial (Monument) — 15.5 mi, 004° N
Gummershiemer Memorial (Monument) — 15.5 mi, 004° N
Tweed Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 16.3 mi, 349° N
Frisco Hill Stone (Monument) — 16.4 mi, 313° NW
Sandy Creek Covered Bridge (Attraction) — 16.6 mi, 287° W
Pink Elephant (Attraction) — 19.7 mi, 328° NW
Center for French Colonial Life (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 149° SE
Busch Estate Carriage Rides (Attraction) — 23.4 mi, 344° N
Grant's Farm Parking Lot (Attraction) — 23.5 mi, 344° N
Wildfruit Gallery (Gallery) — 24.0 mi, 359° N
Emma Kunz County Museum (Museum) — 24.1 mi, 035° NE
Green Root Gallery (Gallery) — 24.2 mi, 034° NE
Village Theatre (Theatre) — 24.9 mi, 016° N
Janes and Pang Atelier (Arts Centre) — 24.9 mi, 001° N
Salon and Gallery (Gallery) — 25.5 mi, 001° N
Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 32.7 mi, 174° S · 1.5M acres
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 40.3 mi, 129° SE · 274k acres

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