Explore Nashville, 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 Nashville, 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 Nashville.
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 | Nashville |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Washington County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.353618 |
| Longitude | -89.377987 |
| Population | 3,105 |
| Density | 389.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62263 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| County Seat | Nashville |
| School District | Nashville Consolidated Community School District 49 |
Nashville emerges from the flat, fertile expanse of the Illinois prairie as a quiet confluence of grid-lined streets and wide, open horizons. It lies 18.3 miles southwest of Centralia, IL (from Centralia, IL: bearing 227°T), and is situated 18.2 miles north of Pinckneyville. Nashville Creek cuts a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, its banks providing a subtle contour to the otherwise level terrain where the light of late afternoon stretches long and thin across the soybean fields. To the west, the distant silhouettes of Pelican Pouch rise against the sky like a faint, jagged promise, while the stillness of the nearby Nashville Reservoir reflects the shifting hues of a bruised, violet-gray dusk. Nashville Memorial Park offers a pause in this expansive geography, serving as a central point where the wind carries the dry, rhythmic rustle of cornstalks from the surrounding North Prairie.
Agricultural cycles have long dictated the pulse of Nashville, shaping an economy rooted in the deep, dark soil that defines this region of the state. Generations have organized their lives around the seasonal shifts of planting and harvest, maintaining a commerce that favors sturdy brick storefronts and a pace governed by the sun rather than the clock. The identity of Nashville remains tethered to its history as a hub for the surrounding farmland, where the social fabric is reinforced by long-standing local traditions and the quiet persistence of its residents. Even now, the steady hum of machinery and the occasional train whistle underscore a way of life that values consistency, grounding the inhabitants in a landscape that demands both labor and a deep, appreciative gaze toward the horizon.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Nashville, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.353618, -89.377987. 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 Nashville includes the ZIP code (62263), telephone area code (217), county seat of Washington County (Nashville), and school district assignment (Nashville Consolidated Community School District 49).
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. |