Explore Marine, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Marine, 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 Marine.
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 | Marine |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Madison County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.786436 |
| Longitude | -89.777594 |
| Population | 912 |
| Density | 472.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62061 |
| Area Code | 309 |
| County Seat | Edwardsville |
| School District | Triad Community Unit School District 2 |
Marine anchors itself firmly within the vast, sun-drenched expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and flat under a sky that shifts from pale morning violet to a deep, resonant amber by dusk. It lies 6.6 miles west-northwest of Highland, IL (from Highland, IL: bearing 300°T), and is situated 9.6 miles east of Edwardsville. Sugar Fork cuts a modest, winding path through the surrounding fields just a mile away, its presence marked by the rhythmic rustle of riparian growth that provides a cool, shadowed refuge from the relentless midday heat. Within the village itself, Marine Village Park serves as the primary communal clearing, a space where the manicured grass meets the wilder edges of the regional landscape. On the clearest days, when the air turns crisp and thin, the faint, hazy suggestion of Pleasant Ridge can be traced against the distant boundary of the world, twenty-five miles removed from the steady, terrestrial pulse of the local soil.
Agriculture remains the quiet architect of life in Marine, dictating the seasonal cadence of planting and harvest that defines the local economy and the slow, deliberate pace of the streets. The legacy of early settlers is preserved in the sturdy, unpretentious brick architecture that stands as a silent witness to generations of labor in the surrounding fields, where corn and soybeans transform the landscape into a grid of gold and emerald. Residents often find their way toward the quiet waters of Sportsman Lake, a small, reflective basin that offers a point of stillness in a region otherwise defined by the productive motion of machines and the sway of crops. Life here possesses a grounded clarity, moving in alignment with the soil and the wind, untroubled by the frantic velocity of the distant metropolis and content in the simple, enduring reality of the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Marine, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.786436, -89.777594. 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 Marine includes the ZIP code (62061), telephone area code (309), county seat of Madison County (Edwardsville), and school district assignment (Triad 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. |