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New Douglas Illinois Map

Explore New Douglas, 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 Douglas, Illinois

How to Use This New Douglas, Illinois Map

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

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 Douglas
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Madison County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.970046
Longitude	-89.666479
Population	350
Density	128.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62074
Area Code	309
County Seat	Edwardsville
School District	Highland Community Unit School District 5

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About New Douglas, Illinois

New Douglas is a locality in Madison County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 350. The population density is 128.9 people per km². New Douglas is located at 38.9700°N, 89.6665°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. New Douglas is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62074.

New Douglas commands a quiet stretch of the Illinois prairie where the horizon widens into an endless reach of soybean fields and corn rows. It lies 15.9 miles north of Highland, IL (from Highland, IL: bearing 1°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east-southeast of Staunton. The land here remains stubbornly level, a vast expanse of dark, fertile soil that holds the sun’s warmth long after the light has faded to a soft, bruised violet. To the west, the subtle rise of the distant Pelican Pouch serves as a faint, jagged sketch against the sky, while the immediate landscape is defined by the slow, deliberate movement of Little Dry Fork as it winds through the quiet fields. At the center of this terrain, Old Settlers Community Club Park offers a patch of greenery where the air carries the scent of turned earth and the dry, persistent rustle of tall grass, grounding the atmosphere in the simple, unadorned reality of the Midwestern plains.

Agriculture provides the steady pulse of New Douglas, a rhythm measured by the planting and the harvest rather than the frantic ticking of a clock. The local economy remains anchored to the surrounding fields, a tradition of labor that has persisted through generations of families who know the temperament of this soil as well as they know their own kin. While Big Four Reservoir waits four miles away as a quiet place for reflection, the daily life of New Douglas is occupied by the maintenance of machinery and the slow, communal work of sustaining a rural existence. There is a particular clarity to the winters here, when the frost clings to the fence lines and the silence is absolute, revealing a resilient character in the architecture and the people who prefer the solitude of the open country to the clamor of more crowded places.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Old Settlers Community Club Park (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 234° SW
Stauton Sportsman Club (Park) — 6.6 mi, 307° NW
Henry's Rabbit Ranch (Attraction) — 6.6 mi, 291° W
Golf Course (Park) — 7.1 mi, 315° NW
Illinois Traction System (Monument) — 7.2 mi, 294° NW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 7.9 mi, 298° NW
Mother Jones Monument (Monument) — 8.4 mi, 335° NW
Copper Grapes (Public Artwork) — 11.2 mi, 144° SE
World War II Tank (Monument) — 13.8 mi, 206° SW
Coffeen Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.1 mi, 071° E
Gillespie Prairie State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.2 mi, 355° N
Richard W. Bock Sculpture Museum (Museum) — 14.8 mi, 111° E
Ladue Auditorium (Theatre) — 14.9 mi, 111° E
Greenville University Factory Theatre (Theatre) — 15.1 mi, 112° E
Henry Eilers Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 15.4 mi, 014° N
Shoal Creek Nature Conservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 16.0 mi, 014° N
Bethalto Historical Museum (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 258° W
7 Gates of Hell: Gate 7 (Viewpoint) — 20.6 mi, 208° SW
Edwardsville Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 20.8 mi, 233° SW
Browns Mound (Historic Ruins) — 22.4 mi, 215° SW
Ralph Korte Stadium (Stadium) — 22.6 mi, 235° SW
Beaver Dam State Park (State Park) — 22.9 mi, 317° NW
Mustang Corral (Attraction) — 23.4 mi, 232° SW
Charles Raich Field (Stadium) — 23.5 mi, 249° W
Town & Country Motel sign (Attraction) — 23.7 mi, 232° SW
Eldon Hazlet (State Recreation Area) — 27.1 mi, 140° SE
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.8 mi, 250° W · 32k acres
Horshoe Lake State Park (State Park) — 28.3 mi, 230° SW
Gateway Arch National Park (National Park) — 36.4 mi, 230° SW · 85 acres
Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.0 mi, 270° W · 1,866 acres

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