New Grand Chain Illinois Map
Explore New Grand Chain, 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 Grand Chain, Illinois
How to Use This New Grand Chain, Illinois Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for New Grand Chain, 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 Grand Chain.
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 Grand Chain |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Pulaski County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.251996 |
| Longitude | -89.021181 |
| Population | 150 |
| Density | 55.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62941 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| County Seat | Mound City |
| School District | Century Community Unit School District 100 |
About New Grand Chain, Illinois
New Grand Chain is a locality in Pulaski County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 150. The population density is 55.5 people per km². New Grand Chain is located at 37.2520°N, 89.0212°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. New Grand Chain is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62941.New Grand Chain occupies a quiet stretch of land where the flat, fertile earth of the Illinois lowlands begins to soften into the dense, shadowed thickets of the southern timberlands. It lies 33.4 miles south of Marion, IL (from Marion, IL: bearing 188°T), and is situated 17.4 miles west-northwest of Metropolis. The horizon here is vast, often dominated by the heavy, bruised purples of late-summer thunderstorms that roll across the fields, casting a fleeting, melancholic light upon the surrounding woods. To the north, the distant outline of Butter Ridge provides a steady, silent anchor to the skyline, while the moist, tangled reaches of Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge offer a sanctuary for the stillness that settles over the region at dusk. Just a mile away, the surface of Ulrich Lake mirrors the changing sky with a glassy, unblinking intensity, its waters undisturbed by the hum of the modern world. Beyond the immediate canopy, the earth dips toward the low-lying expanse of Hogans Bottoms, where the soil remains dark and heavy with the weight of seasonal rains.
New Grand Chain maintains a character forged by the slow, deliberate pulse of agricultural life and the persistent flow of water through the nearby Limekiln Slough. The rhythm of the days here is dictated not by the clock, but by the turning of the seasons and the cycle of the harvest, which draws the eye across endless rows of green and gold that define the local economy. Though the pace of life remains muted, the legacy of the region lingers in the sturdy, weathered architecture that stands as a quiet witness to the generations who cleared the brush and worked the stubborn, alluvial soil. There is a particular clarity to the air here, a crispness that carries the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves from the nearby wetlands, reminding every traveler that New Grand Chain exists as a solitary point of endurance in a landscape that is both yielding and profoundly indifferent to the passage of time.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.3 mi, 280° W · 33k acres
- Cache River State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 020° N
- Tunnel Hill (State Recreation Area) — 3.2 mi, 038° NE
- Lower Cache River Access Area (Nature Reserve) — 3.6 mi, 331° NW
- Ballard Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.8 mi, 183° S
- Lower Cache River Macrosite Fee (Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 297° NW
- Cache River Wetlands Fee (Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 041° NE
- Jean Farwell Overloop (Viewpoint) — 5.7 mi, 043° NE
- Farm Service Agency Interest Of Il (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.9 mi, 357° N · 665 acres
- Grassy Slough Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 6.0 mi, 046° NE
- John Bridges Tavern Location (Historic Ruins) — 12.6 mi, 001° N
- Trail of Tears Memorial (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 033° NE
- Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 13.6 mi, 031° NE · 274k acres
- Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 16.5 mi, 018° N · 7,712 acres
- Superman Museum & Gift Shop (Museum) — 17.3 mi, 113° SE
- Lois Lane Statue (Attraction) — 17.4 mi, 113° SE
- Bulge Hole Ecological Area (Attraction) — 18.3 mi, 023° NE
- George Rodgers Clark Statue (Public Artwork) — 18.6 mi, 114° SE
- Fort Massac (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 114° SE
- Natural Bridge (Attraction) — 18.9 mi, 004° N
- Desert Storm Memorial (Monument) — 19.1 mi, 208° SW
- GEM Theatre (Cinema) — 19.2 mi, 205° SW
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial (Monument) — 19.4 mi, 206° SW
- Burial Mound (Historic Ruins) — 19.8 mi, 191° S
- Cobden Museum (Museum) — 23.3 mi, 327° NW
- Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 23.6 mi, 354° N · 4,387 acres
- Noble Park Amphitheater (Theatre) — 23.9 mi, 118° SE
- Bricolage Art Collective (Gallery) — 26.0 mi, 116° SE
- Bald Knob Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 26.3 mi, 319° NW · 5,830 acres
- Larue-Pine Hills National Natural Landmark (National Monument) — 30.0 mi, 312° NW · 1,959 acres
Latest News: New Grand Chain
Loading news…
World News
Loading news-world…
More World News
Loading news-world…
About This New Grand Chain Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Grand Chain, Illinois. Coordinates: 37.251996, -89.021181. 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 New Grand Chain includes the ZIP code (62941), telephone area code (618), county seat of Pulaski County (Mound City), and school district assignment (Century Community Unit School District 100).
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. |
