Explore Millstadt, 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 Millstadt, 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 Millstadt.
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 | Millstadt |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | St. Clair County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.46144 |
| Longitude | -90.091776 |
| Population | 4,071 |
| Density | 450.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62260 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| County Seat | Belleville |
| School District | Belleville Township High School District 201 |
Millstadt occupies a broad expanse of elevated prairie where the horizon stretches wide, defined by the steady, rhythmic intersection of earth and sky. It lies 6.0 miles east-northeast of Columbia, IL (from Columbia, IL: bearing 78°T), and is situated 7.1 miles southwest of Belleville. The landscape here is characterized by a subtle, tectonic patience, where the land tilts toward the modest banks of Douglas Creek just a mile away, and the distant silhouette of Belcher Ridge anchors the far western view. At Millstadt Village Park, the grass holds the heavy, golden luminescence of late afternoon, a quiet space where the air carries the scent of turned soil and dry wheat. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain dips into the quiet, shaded moisture of Cement Hollow, while the quiet waters of Beil Lake Number 2 reflect the shifting charcoal clouds of the Midwest.
German immigrants laid the foundations of Millstadt, carving a settlement from the thickets that once dominated these fertile plains. The local economy persists as a sturdy extension of this agricultural heritage, with silos and homesteads standing as markers of a life tethered to the seasonal turning of crops. History persists here in the solid brick masonry of older structures, reflecting a time when the labor of the hand and the plow defined the day’s measure. Millstadt maintains a distinct, deliberate pace, where the sound of wind moving through the stalks of corn provides a constant, low-frequency hum against the quiet industry of the streets. It is a place that observes its own passage of time, indifferent to the frantic velocity of the world beyond its borders, finding its purpose in the reliable cycle of harvest and the slow, deep cooling of the earth at dusk.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Millstadt, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.46144, -90.091776. 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 Millstadt includes the ZIP code (62260), telephone area code (217), county seat of St. Clair County (Belleville), and school district assignment (Belleville Township High School District 201).
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. |