Explore Millersburg, 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 Millersburg, 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 Millersburg.
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 | Millersburg |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Mercer County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.241422 |
| Longitude | -90.818475 |
| Population | 54 |
| Density | 70.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 61231 |
| Area Code | 847, 224 |
| County Seat | Aledo |
| School District | Mercer County School District 404 |
Millersburg emerges from the flat, expansive horizon as a collection of brick facades and gabled roofs anchored firmly into the Illinois prairie. It lies 22.3 miles southwest of Rock Island, IL (from Rock Island, IL: bearing 214°T), and is situated 4.6 miles northwest of Aledo. The landscape surrounding Millersburg is defined by the steady, quiet persistence of agricultural fields that stretch until they blur into the haze of the distant sky. Little Camp Creek cuts a thin, winding path through the soil just a mile away, its banks marked by the seasonal pulse of silt and shifting grasses. When the sun dips low, the light catches the dust of the plains, turning the air a pale, bruised gold that illuminates the silhouettes of distant barns and the far-off, jagged outline of Army Ridge Bluffs visible against the horizon.
Millersburg retains the sturdy, utilitarian character of its foundations, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the rhythm of the local grain trade. Residents often seek the quiet spaces of Northside Park for a brief reprieve, or travel the short four miles to the edges of Lake Nelson, where the water holds the reflection of the clouds in a stillness that feels untouched by the frantic pace of the wider world. Life in Millersburg moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, shaped by the practical needs of a rural center that has grown alongside the slow, inevitable expansion of the Midwestern fields. Though seventeen miles away, the vast, wooded expanse of Big River State Forest exerts a silent, green influence on the regional climate, grounding the atmosphere in a persistent, earthy dampness that defines the local seasons.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Millersburg, Illinois. Coordinates: 41.241422, -90.818475. 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 Millersburg includes the ZIP code (61231), telephone area code (847, 224), county seat of Mercer County (Aledo), and school district assignment (Mercer County School District 404).
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. |