Mason City Illinois Map

About Mason City, Illinois

Mason City is a locality in Mason County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,077. The population density is 790.9 people per km². Mason City is located at 40.2023°N, 89.6982°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mason City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62664.

Mason City emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of central Illinois like a quiet anchor cast into a sea of corn and soybeans. It lies 18.0 miles west-northwest of Lincoln, IL (from Lincoln, IL: bearing 282°T), and is situated 15.4 miles north-northeast of Petersburg. The land here is defined by the relentless, horizontal reach of the prairie, where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself and the light at dusk bruises the clouds with shades of violet and bruised gold. Three miles to the west, Salt Creek carves a slow, meandering path through the fertile silt, while the waters of Ellsberry Lake offer a still, reflective reprieve from the sun-drenched fields. To the north, the distant rise of Red Oak Ridge provides a faint, serrated edge to the skyline, and the presence of Memorial Park serves as a green, manicured center around which the local architecture gathers in humble assembly.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Mason City, dictating the seasonal migration of machinery and the rhythmic turn of the soil. Established as a product of the nineteenth-century expansion, the local economy reflects a legacy of rail-side trade and the steady, unadorned labor of those who work the black prairie loam. Life moves with the deliberate pace of a long-settled place, where the brick storefronts hold the heat of the day long into the cooling evening. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the landscape transitions toward the sheltered depths of Sleepy Hollow or the more distant, sandy terrain of Sand Ridge State Forest, yet the character of Mason City remains anchored to the sturdy, hardworking traditions of the American Midwest.

About This Mason City Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mason City, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.202266, -89.698164. 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 Mason City includes the ZIP code (62664), telephone area code (217), county seat of Mason County (Havana), and school district assignment (Illini Central Community Unit School District 189).

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.