Explore North Barrington, 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 North Barrington, 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 North Barrington.
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 | North Barrington |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Lake County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 42.207802 |
| Longitude | -88.140635 |
| Population | 3,171 |
| Density | 259.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 60010 |
| Area Code | 312, 773 |
| County Seat | Waukegan |
| School District | Barrington Community Unit School District 220 |
North Barrington rises from the glacial persistence of the Illinois landscape, where the earth settles into a quiet, verdant composure. It lies 2.5 miles west-northwest of Lake Zurich, IL (from Lake Zurich, IL: bearing 287°T), and is situated 8.7 miles northwest of Palatine. North Flint Creek carves a meditative path through the terrain, its waters threading past the quiet borders of Eton Park, where the light at dusk catches the tall grasses in a sudden, fleeting bronze. Grassy Lake rests nearby, a mirror for the shifting Midwestern sky, holding the stillness of the afternoon in its dark, glassy depths. The air here carries the scent of damp loam and the faint, sweet decay of autumn leaves, grounding the spirit in a geography that favors the slow, deliberate growth of ancient oaks and the expansive reach of the prairie horizon.
North Barrington holds a legacy of deliberate, spacious living, having evolved from wide-reaching agrarian tracts into a sanctuary of wooded estates and private preserves. The economy remains tethered to the quiet pulse of professional commerce and the maintenance of a landscape that resists the frantic pace of the nearby urban grid. Residents move through their days with a steady, unspoken intention, often looking toward the distant silhouette of Bald Knob or finding solace in the managed wildness of the Spring Creek Valley Forest Preserve. It is a place defined not by the noise of industry, but by the preservation of personal space, where the long, quiet afternoons are measured by the lengthening shadows of the trees and the persistent, unhurried flow of the local creek.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of North Barrington, Illinois. Coordinates: 42.207802, -88.140635. 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 North Barrington includes the ZIP code (60010), telephone area code (312, 773), county seat of Lake County (Waukegan), and school district assignment (Barrington Community Unit School District 220).
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. |