Old Shawneetown Illinois Map

About Old Shawneetown, Illinois

Old Shawneetown is a locality in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 113. The population density is 85.5 people per km². Old Shawneetown is located at 37.6970°N, 88.1367°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Old Shawneetown is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62984.

Old Shawneetown sits as a weathered sentinel upon the high banks of the Ohio River, where the water moves with a heavy, deliberate strength through the heart of the landscape. It lies 43.6 miles east of Marion, IL (from Marion, IL: bearing 93°T), and is situated 19.3 miles northwest of Williams. The air here holds the damp weight of the bottomlands, shifting across the fields that stretch toward the distant rises of Gold Hill and the broader, untamed expanse of the Shawnee National Forest. Sunlight strikes the brick facades of the early nineteenth-century architecture at an angle that seems to deepen their color, casting long shadows that trace the history of a place once envisioned as a capital of commerce. Beyond the immediate reach of the streets, the terrain softens into the quiet, rural textures of the plains, where the silence is broken only by the low rustle of wind through the tall grasses.

Old Shawneetown carries the gravity of its early prominence as a banking center, its grand, columned structures standing as remnants of a time when the river served as the primary artery for the movement of people and wealth. The local economy long ago transitioned from the frenetic pace of frontier finance to a slower, more deliberate existence, shaped by the cycles of the seasons and the unpredictable temperament of the Ohio River. Travelers passing through the region might catch glimpses of the nearby Geiger Lake, a quiet mirror to the sky, or find their way toward the paths of the Beaver Trail. Life in Old Shawneetown remains tethered to the land and the river, a place where the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the slow, inevitable reclamation of the earth.

About This Old Shawneetown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Old Shawneetown, Illinois. Coordinates: 37.696991, -88.136701. 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 Old Shawneetown includes the ZIP code (62984), telephone area code (618), county seat of Gallatin County (Shawneetown), and school district assignment (Gallatin Community Unit School District 7).

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.