Manchester Illinois Map
Explore Manchester, 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 Manchester, Illinois
How to Use This Manchester, Illinois Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Manchester, 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 Manchester.
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 | Manchester |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Scott County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.542269 |
| Longitude | -90.332344 |
| Population | 265 |
| Density | 96.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 62663, 62082 |
| Area Code | 217, 309 |
| County Seat | Winchester |
| School District | Winchester Community Unit School District 1 |
About Manchester, Illinois
Manchester is a locality in Scott County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 265. The population density is 96.3 people per km². Manchester is located at 39.5423°N, 90.3323°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Manchester is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 62663, 62082.Manchester stretches across the flat, expansive plains of the Illinois interior, where the horizon meets the sky in a vast, unbroken line of muted earth tones and deep, seasonal greens. It lies 14.3 miles south-southwest of Jacksonville, IL (from Jacksonville, IL: bearing 203°T), and is situated 8.2 miles north-northeast of White Hall. Marks Creek winds through the nearby landscape, a persistent thread of water that draws the gaze toward the subtle shifts in elevation marking the approach to more rugged terrain. In the distance, the faint, hazy silhouette of Tick Ridge creates a jagged boundary against the clouds, while the nearby Roodhouse Site offers a quiet expanse of preserved land that captures the stillness of the prairie. When the light of late afternoon settles over the fields, the air takes on a heavy, golden quality, illuminating the dormant textures of the soil and the quiet, deliberate pace of the land.
Manchester endures as a place defined by the rhythmic pulse of agriculture, where the prosperity of the soil dictates the slow, cyclical nature of daily life. The economy remains tethered to the harvest, drawing its vitality from the deep, dark loam that has sustained generations of families who built their lives upon these fertile stretches. Beyond the immediate fields, the proximity to the serene waters of Ware Brothers Pond provides a rare, reflective point of stillness, while the distant, shadowed depths of Happy Hollow hint at the subtle complexities of the local topography. Manchester carries the weight of a modest, industrious history, where the labor of the present remains quietly aligned with the persistent, unadorned character of the Midwestern landscape.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Roodhouse Site (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 210° SW
- Wolf Run Bow Hunters (Private Recreation) — 3.0 mi, 157° SE
- Unknown Park (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 207° SW
- 217 Terror Haunted House (Attraction) — 4.4 mi, 209° SW
- American Legion Park (Local Recreation) — 4.5 mi, 201° S
- Sandy Creek Baptist Camp (Private Recreation) — 4.6 mi, 241° SW
- Roodhouse Community Park (Local Park) — 5.3 mi, 199° S
- Prairie Land Heritage Museam (Museum) — 12.8 mi, 021° N
- Mound House (Historic Ruins) — 13.8 mi, 256° W
- Farm Service Agency Interest Of Il (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.1 mi, 206° SW · 665 acres
- Strawn Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 14.1 mi, 022° N
- Illinois Theater (Cinema) — 14.4 mi, 023° NE
- Woodlawn Farm Underground RR (Historic Ruins) — 16.9 mi, 037° NE
- Center for American Archeology Museum (Museum) — 22.5 mi, 221° SW
- Skip Anderson Big Timber Preservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 23.4 mi, 221° SW
- Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.5 mi, 333° NW · 7,396 acres
- America's Most Wanted Bird (Public Artwork) — 23.9 mi, 299° NW
- North Overlook (Viewpoint) — 23.9 mi, 219° SW
- Potawatomi Trail of Death - Island Grove Encampment (Monument) — 25.2 mi, 052° NE
- Macoupin County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 29.5 mi, 126° SE
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About This Manchester Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Manchester, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.542269, -90.332344. 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 Manchester includes the ZIP code (62663, 62082), telephone area code (217, 309), county seat of Scott County (Winchester), and school district assignment (Winchester Community Unit School District 1).
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. |
