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Panola Illinois Map

Explore Panola, 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 Panola, Illinois

How to Use This Panola, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.783646
Longitude	-89.021186
Population	47
Density	42.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	61738
Area Code	309
County Seat	Eureka
School District	El Paso-Gridley Community Unit School District 11

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About Panola, Illinois

Panola is a locality in Woodford County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 47. The population density is 42.3 people per km². Panola is located at 40.7836°N, 89.0212°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Panola is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61738.

Panola occupies a flat expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vault of immense, shifting clouds. It lies 18.7 miles north of Normal, IL (from Normal, IL: bearing 355°T), and is situated 3.1 miles north of El Paso. Panther Creek meanders through the landscape just a mile away, its banks marked by the seasonal pulse of vegetation that thrives in the rich, dark soil. Three miles distant, Jefferson Park offers a quiet refuge of green, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Blue Mound serves as a faint anchor to the west. At dusk, the light here turns a heavy, bruised gold, catching the dust motes above the fields and casting long, thin shadows that seem to pull the edges of the world inward.

Panola remains deeply connected to the rhythm of the seasons, defined by the cycles of planting and harvest that dictate the pace of life for those who work the surrounding acreage. The economy is rooted in the productivity of this land, with grain elevators standing as the primary, silent sentinels of local commerce. While Stark Pond lies eight miles out, providing a modest break in the relentless flatness of the plains, the character of the region is defined more by the immense, human-scaled labor of the farmstead. Life here avoids the frantic tempo of distant, denser grids, favoring instead the steady persistence of a place that understands its own isolation and finds a quiet, enduring beauty in the depth of its own silence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Jefferson Park (Local Park) — 3.0 mi, 178° S
Project XV Museum (Museum) — 3.1 mi, 176° S
Park (Local Park) — 3.4 mi, 171° S
El Paso Country Club (Local Recreation) — 7.2 mi, 169° S
Sweeney Woods Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 8.3 mi, 150° SE
Fairlakes Golf Course (Park) — 8.8 mi, 214° SW
Roanoke Park and Swimming Pool (Local Recreation) — 9.6 mi, 276° W
Merwin Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 10.3 mi, 142° SE
Becker Auditorium (Theatre) — 13.9 mi, 249° W
Ronald Reagan Museum (Museum) — 13.9 mi, 250° W
Eureka Clay Time (Public Artwork) — 13.9 mi, 252° W
Memory Lane (Attraction) — 15.7 mi, 127° SE
Stroud Auditorium (Theatre) — 18.6 mi, 176° S
Old Main Cornerstone (Monument) — 19.0 mi, 175° S
University Galleries (Gallery) — 19.1 mi, 174° S
Mackinaw River (State Recreation Area) — 20.4 mi, 223° SW
Merwin Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 20.4 mi, 176° S
The Sesquicentennial Gates (Monument) — 20.5 mi, 175° S
Ladd School Subway (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 071° E
Pontiac - Oakland Museum and Resource Center (Museum) — 21.5 mi, 072° E
Student Art Gallery (Gallery) — 21.5 mi, 165° S
Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum (Museum) — 21.6 mi, 072° E
Livingston County War Museum (Museum) — 21.6 mi, 072° E
Washington F4 Tornado Memorial (Monument) — 21.7 mi, 256° W
Historic US Route 66 Sign (Attraction) — 22.1 mi, 178° S
AMC Classic Sunnyland 10 (Cinema) — 24.9 mi, 255° W
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.0 mi, 320° NW · 13k acres
Spring Lake (State Recreation Area) — 28.2 mi, 256° W
Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 32.3 mi, 000° N
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 58.3 mi, 045° NE · 18k acres

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