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New Canton Illinois Map

Explore New Canton, 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 New Canton, Illinois

How to Use This New Canton, Illinois Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for New Canton, 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 New Canton.

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	New Canton
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Pike County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.636158
Longitude	-91.095971
Population	334
Density	146.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62356
Area Code	217
County Seat	Pittsfield
School District	Western Community Unit School District 12

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About New Canton, Illinois

New Canton is a locality in Pike County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 334. The population density is 146.4 people per km². New Canton is located at 39.6362°N, 91.0960°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. New Canton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62356.

New Canton defines itself through the steady, insistent presence of Kiser Creek, which carves a path through the low-lying terrain of Whippoorwill Hollow. It lies 26.6 miles southeast of Quincy, IL (from Quincy, IL: bearing 141°T), and is situated 14.8 miles east-southeast of Hannibal. The landscape here is characterized by the quiet persistence of the Midwestern interior, where the land flattens into wide, fertile expanses before rising toward the faint, serrated silhouette of Long Ridge on the distant horizon. Light in the late afternoon possesses a particular density, turning the fields to a bruised gold that clings to the stalks of ripening crops long after the sun has begun its descent. Just a few miles away, the Grubb Hollow Prairie State Natural Area preserves a remnant of the tallgrass that once dominated this interior, offering a stark contrast to the worked earth that defines the immediate surroundings of New Canton.

Agriculture remains the pulse of the local economy, a legacy of settlement that transformed the basin into a grid of corn and soybeans, organized by the seasonal necessity of planting and harvest. The rhythm of life in New Canton follows the slow turning of this cycle, where the brick-and-limestone architecture of the older buildings speaks to a time when the labor of the soil dictated the growth of the streetscape. Residents often look toward Hog Slough when the heat of midsummer settles heavy over the fields, seeking the stillness of the water as a relief from the unrelenting work of the season. There is a muted, deliberate quality to the daily movement here, as if the land itself demands a measured pace from those who dwell within its quiet, inland folds.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Grubb Hollow Prairie State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 322° NW
Cincinnati Landing Site (Conservation Area) — 5.0 mi, 235° SW
Hadley Creek (State Recreation Area) — 5.0 mi, 351° N
Ray Norbut State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 138° SE
Drift Island (Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 199° S
Scenic View (Viewpoint) — 6.7 mi, 227° SW
Ms Rv Pools 11-22 Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 7.5 mi, 272° W
New Philadelphia National Historic Site interpretive kiosk (Monument) — 8.3 mi, 059° NE
Karl's Movies (Cinema) — 13.2 mi, 169° S
John Stoeckley's Reflections of Missouri Gallery (Gallery) — 13.3 mi, 170° S
Great River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.6 mi, 158° S · 10k acres
Mark Twain Steamboat Pilot (Public Artwork) — 14.8 mi, 291° W
Art Gallery 310 (Gallery) — 14.8 mi, 291° W
William Henry Hatch (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 290° W
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 291° W
Bay Island Conservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 16.8 mi, 295° NW
Siloam Springs State Park (State Park) — 18.3 mi, 026° NE
Bridge Foundation (Historic Ruins) — 18.9 mi, 027° NE
Naples Mound 8 (Historic Ruins) — 24.1 mi, 080° E
Dr. J.W. Well Nature Park (Nature Reserve) — 26.2 mi, 298° NW
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum (Museum) — 26.4 mi, 321° NW
History Museum on the Square (Museum) — 26.4 mi, 321° NW
All Wars Museum (Museum) — 27.3 mi, 324° NW
Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.4 mi, 149° SE · 7,659 acres
Vandalia Historical Center (Museum) — 30.8 mi, 223° SW
Wakonda State Park (State Park) — 32.9 mi, 320° NW
Indian Creek (Theatre) — 34.0 mi, 257° W
Center for American Archeology Museum (Museum) — 34.9 mi, 132° SE
Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 71.5 mi, 227° SW · 1.5M acres

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