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Mill Shoals Illinois Map

Explore Mill Shoals, 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 Mill Shoals, Illinois

How to Use This Mill Shoals, Illinois Map

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

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	Mill Shoals
State	Illinois (IL)
County	White County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.248659
Longitude	-88.346712
Population	176
Density	88.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62862
Area Code	618
County Seat	Carmi
School District	Fairfield Community High School District 225

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About Mill Shoals, Illinois

Mill Shoals is a locality in White County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 176. The population density is 88.6 people per km². Mill Shoals is located at 38.2487°N, 88.3467°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mill Shoals is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62862.

Mill Shoals emerges from the flat, iron-rich earth of southern Illinois where the horizon stretches into an endless, rhythmic cycle of corn and soybean stalks. It lies 30.5 miles east of Mount Vernon, IL (from Mount Vernon, IL: bearing 99°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south of Fairfield. The landscape is defined by a deep, sedimentary patience, with the sluggish, winding course of Skillet Fork carving a shallow depression through the silt just a mile from the center of the village. To the west, the subtle rise of Pig Ridge breaks the monotony of the plains, its silhouette softened by the haze of afternoon heat, while the nearby presence of Briar Patch Lake provides a quiet, stagnant mirror for the shifting clouds. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, turning the dust of the fields into a fine, golden powder that settles over the low-slung architecture and the quiet, unpaved edges of the roads.

Mill Shoals carries the weight of a frontier history that has long since folded back into the soil, leaving behind a quiet economy tethered to the seasonal pulse of the surrounding agriculture. Life is measured by the slow turn of machinery and the persistent, quiet growth of the Alvah Borah State Habitat Area, where the land has been reclaimed by the wilder, scrubby textures of the regional flora. There is a lean, functional economy here, defined by the practicalities of land management and the maintenance of a heritage that favors the endurance of the harvest over the rapid churn of modern industry. The people move with the deliberate caution of those who understand that the ground beneath them is both their primary asset and their final horizon, a place where the stillness of the afternoon is never truly empty, but filled with the sound of wind moving through the tall grass.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Alvah Borah State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 081° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 8.4 mi, 352° N
Little Wabash River (Conservation Area) — 8.5 mi, 053° NE
Ten Mile Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 252° W
Wayne County Historical Museum (Museum) — 8.9 mi, 356° N
War Memorial (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 356° N
Lincoln Monument (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 356° N
Sam And Florence Atkinson Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 10.1 mi, 356° N
The Atheneum & Visitors Center at Historic New Harmony (Museum) — 23.6 mi, 110° E
Archaeological Dig (Historic Ruins) — 23.7 mi, 110° E
Peace Arch (Public Artwork) — 23.7 mi, 110° E
Paul Tillich Memorial (Monument) — 23.8 mi, 110° E
Murphy Auditorium & USI New Harmony Theatre (Theatre) — 23.8 mi, 110° E
New Harmony Contemporary Gallery & Shop (Gallery) — 23.8 mi, 110° E
Hoosier Salon (Gallery) — 23.8 mi, 110° E
Maximillian Bodmer Exhibit (Museum) — 23.8 mi, 110° E
George Keppler House (Museum) — 23.9 mi, 110° E
1830 Owen House Jacquess Parlor (Museum) — 23.9 mi, 110° E
Thrall's Opera House (Theatre) — 23.9 mi, 110° E
Harmonie State Park (State Park) — 24.0 mi, 123° SE
Bieker-Wilson Village Site (Historic Ruins) — 27.2 mi, 147° SE
Beall Woods State Park (Nature Reserve) — 29.1 mi, 075° E
Beall Woods Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 29.4 mi, 075° E
Waterfowl Refuge Observation Stand (Viewpoint) — 30.6 mi, 254° W
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.1 mi, 080° E · 20k acres
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 37.0 mi, 176° S · 7,712 acres
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 37.3 mi, 177° S · 274k acres
Garden Of The Gods Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 43.0 mi, 183° S · 3,978 acres
Lusk Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 48.7 mi, 191° S · 6,632 acres
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 49.5 mi, 224° SW · 91k acres

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