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Mason City Illinois Map

Explore Mason City, 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 Mason City, Illinois

How to Use This Mason City, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.202266
Longitude	-89.698164
Population	2,077
Density	790.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62664
Area Code	217
County Seat	Havana
School District	Illini Central Community Unit School District 189

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 180° S
Pavilion Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 191° S
Barton-Sommer Woodland State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.1 mi, 137° SE
Revis Hill Prairie State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.0 mi, 243° SW
Baugher Hill Prairie (Conservation Area) — 9.1 mi, 235° SW
Green Valley Site (Conservation Area) — 12.2 mi, 005° N
Menard County Historical Museum (Museum) — 15.5 mi, 211° SW
Pig-Hip Restaurant Memorial (Attraction) — 16.3 mi, 125° SE
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 16.5 mi, 185° S
Edward R. Madigan State Park (State Park) — 16.5 mi, 108° E
The Tropics Restaurant Neon Sign (Attraction) — 16.7 mi, 100° E
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 16.7 mi, 180° S
Lincolns New Salem State Park (State Park) — 16.7 mi, 206° SW
Ronald McDonald Statue (Public Artwork) — 16.7 mi, 184° S
Long Nine Museum (Museum) — 16.8 mi, 185° S
World's largest covered wagon (Attraction) — 16.8 mi, 103° E
Theater in the park at New Salem (Theatre) — 17.3 mi, 207° SW
VIP Lincoln Grand (Cinema) — 18.1 mi, 102° E
Lincoln Heritage Museum (Museum) — 18.2 mi, 099° E
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 18.7 mi, 317° NW · 13k acres
Route 66 Dream Car Museum (Museum) — 18.7 mi, 156° SE
Shell Gas Station (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 155° SE
Jake Wolf Memorial Fish Hatchery (Museum) — 18.8 mi, 327° NW
Roll of Honor Archway (Monument) — 18.9 mi, 155° SE
Spring Lake (State Recreation Area) — 19.5 mi, 338° N
Sand Prairie-Scrub Oak (Nature Reserve) — 20.0 mi, 264° W
Rockwell Mound (Historic Ruins) — 20.5 mi, 290° W
Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.9 mi, 290° W · 5,262 acres
First Comprehensive Highway Tree Planting (Monument) — 21.7 mi, 176° S
Ogden-Fettie Site (Historic Ruins) — 24.1 mi, 294° NW

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