Explore Noble, 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 Noble, 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 Noble.
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 | Noble |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Richland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.697548 |
| Longitude | -88.223653 |
| Population | 633 |
| Density | 240.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62868 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| County Seat | Olney |
| School District | Richland County Community Unit School District 1 |
Noble anchors itself firmly upon the flat, expansive plains of Illinois, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vault of immense, shifting sky. It lies 33.9 miles south-southeast of Effingham, IL (from Effingham, IL: bearing 149°T), and is situated 7.8 miles west-southwest of Olney. The landscape is defined by the steady, quiet presence of Hog Run Creek, which carves a modest path through the fields, its banks lined with the tangled, rhythmic growth of willow and brush. To the north, the distant silhouette of Pleasant Ridge breaks the absolute level of the earth, a faint, hazy blue suggestion against the gathering dusk. The air here holds the scent of turned soil and cooling metal, a stillness that settles over the land long before the sun dips below the stalks of corn and soybean that define the local geometry.
Agriculture remains the pulse of Noble, with the rhythm of the seasons dictate the movement of machinery and the quiet labor of the fields. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the Little Wabash River offers a sanctuary of wilder terrain, its protected corridors preserving a patch of the deep, quiet woods that once dominated this interior geography. Life moves with the deliberate pace of those who understand the temperament of the climate, where the transition from the golden heat of summer to the stark, biting gray of winter is marked by the changing light on the water at McCarthy Lake. History here is kept not in monuments, but in the enduring resilience of the farmhouse and the rail line, a quiet persistence that defines the character of those who choose to remain in this vast, open country.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Noble, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.697548, -88.223653. 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 Noble includes the ZIP code (62868), telephone area code (618), county seat of Richland County (Olney), and school district assignment (Richland County Community Unit School District 1).
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. |