Otterville Illinois Map

About Otterville, Illinois

Otterville is a locality in Jersey County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 87. The population density is 33.4 people per km². Otterville is located at 39.0506°N, 90.3984°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Otterville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62052.

Otterville occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois interior, where the horizon dissolves into an endless, shifting sea of corn and soybeans. It lies 13.1 miles west-northwest of Godfrey, IL (from Godfrey, IL: bearing 300°T), and is situated 6.1 miles southwest of Jerseyville. South Fork Otter Creek traces a slow, deliberate path through the landscape just a mile away, its banks lined with dense thickets that catch the amber light of late afternoon. To the west, the subtle rise of Goat Ranch Ridge breaks the flatness of the plains, a reminder of the ancient forces that shaped this terrain long before the plow arrived. Visitors often pause at Otterville Town Park, a green refuge where the air holds the scent of damp earth and coming rain, providing a vantage point to watch the shadows lengthen across Shiloh Hollow. Even in the stillness, there is a pulse to the land, an insistent gravity that anchors every farmhouse and fence line to the dark, fertile soil.

Settlement in Otterville grew from the necessity of the land, drawing those who sought to coax a living from the prairie through the patient labor of the harvest. The economy remains tethered to these fields, with the rhythm of the seasons dictating the urgency of the morning and the exhaustion of the dusk. While Nugent-Schpanski Number 4 Lake sits a mere four miles away, its presence is felt more as a cooling influence on the air than as a center of commerce, leaving the daily life of Otterville to unfold with a deliberate, unadorned focus. History here is kept in the weathered brick of the older structures and the shared memory of families who have worked these acres for generations, persisting through the frost of winter and the swelter of mid-summer. It is a place where the scale of the sky dwarfs the works of man, reminding everyone who dwells here that they are merely passing through a landscape that existed long before them and will remain long after.

About This Otterville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Otterville, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.050603, -90.398449. 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 Otterville includes the ZIP code (62052), telephone area code (309), county seat of Jersey County (Jerseyville), and school district assignment (Jersey Community Unit School District 100).

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.