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New Windsor Illinois Map

Explore New Windsor, 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 Windsor, Illinois

How to Use This New Windsor, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	41.202258
Longitude	-90.442352
Population	760
Density	55.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	61465
Area Code	815
County Seat	Aledo

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About New Windsor, Illinois

New Windsor is a locality in Mercer County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 760. The population density is 55.0 people per km². New Windsor is located at 41.2023°N, 90.4424°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 61465.

New Windsor sits firmly upon the vast, fertile expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a sky of immense, shifting gray. It lies 18.0 miles north-northwest of Galesburg, IL (from Galesburg, IL: bearing 348°T), and is situated 18.6 miles south-southeast of Milan. The landscape here is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition from flat croplands to the gentle depressions that cradle North Pope Creek, a waterway carving a quiet, meandering path through the loam just a mile from the center. Light in New Windsor possesses a specific, heavy quality at dusk, catching the stalks of grain and turning the fields into a sea of muted gold that seems to vibrate against the deepening shadows of the evening. Beyond the local fields, the terrain remains largely open, though the distant elevation of Pilot Knob provides a singular, faint punctuation mark on the far-off skyline, reminding the traveler of the subtle, ancient shifts in the earth’s crust that shaped this interior plain.

Agriculture remains the silent pulse of New Windsor, its economy tied to the deep, dark soil that has dictated the rhythm of life since the earliest settlers arrived to break the sod. The legacy of these pioneers is felt in the orderly grid of the streets and the sturdy, pragmatic architecture of the buildings that house the essential commerce of the region. Residents often look toward the Cresent Lake Club for a respite in the natural world, finding a stillness there that contrasts with the industrious nature of the surrounding farms. While the larger pace of modern life hums elsewhere, New Windsor holds to a deliberate, quiet consistency, anchored by the changing seasons and the simple, enduring fact of the harvest.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Cresent Lake Club (Park) — 3.6 mi, 093° E
4th Ave Park (Local Park) — 6.9 mi, 103° E
3rd Ave Park (Local Park) — 7.2 mi, 104° E
Blackthorn Hill Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 13.4 mi, 187° S
Public Triangle (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 128° SE
Niabi Zoo Forest Preserve (Local Recreation) — 16.1 mi, 000° N
State Historic Site Museum (Attraction) — 16.8 mi, 091° E
Poet Carl Sandburg and Nellie the Goat (Public Artwork) — 18.0 mi, 168° S
Galesburg Civic Arts Center (Gallery) — 18.1 mi, 167° S
CB&Q Engine 3006 (Attraction) — 18.2 mi, 167° S
Hennepin Canal (State Recreation Area) — 18.7 mi, 008° N
Carl Sandburg Birthplace Historic Site (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 168° S
James B. Stockdale Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 164° S
Ms Rv Pools 11-22 Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 20.0 mi, 330° NW
Deere Cross (Monument) — 21.3 mi, 353° N
Fryxell Geology Museum (Museum) — 21.5 mi, 345° N
Snakeden Hollow State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.7 mi, 124° SE
The Oculus (Viewpoint) — 22.2 mi, 351° N
Rock Island Arsenal Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 347° N
Abraham Lincoln Statue (Monument) — 22.8 mi, 041° NE
Geneseo Water Tower Fish (Attraction) — 23.0 mi, 042° NE
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife And Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.1 mi, 360° N · 274k acres
Warren County History Museum (Museum) — 23.2 mi, 209° SW
Davenport Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 23.9 mi, 340° N
Big River State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 25.6 mi, 249° W
Hoepfner House (Historic Ruins) — 26.1 mi, 005° N
Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.8 mi, 256° W · 24k acres
Wildcat Den State Park (State Park) — 28.5 mi, 310° NW
Johnson-Sauk Trail State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 29.1 mi, 074° E
Ellison (historical) (Historic Ruins) — 34.3 mi, 210° SW

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