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Pearl City Illinois Map

Explore Pearl City, 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 Pearl City, Illinois

How to Use This Pearl City, Illinois Map

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

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	Pearl City
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Stephenson County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	42.265297
Longitude	-89.825953
Population	790
Density	475.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	61062
Area Code	847, 224
County Seat	Freeport
School District	Pearl City Community Unit School District 200

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About Pearl City, Illinois

Pearl City is a locality in Stephenson County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 790. The population density is 475.9 people per km². Pearl City is located at 42.2653°N, 89.8260°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Pearl City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61062.

Pearl City occupies a quiet expanse of Northern Illinois where the land rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells of fertile earth. It lies 10.7 miles west-southwest of Freeport, IL (from Freeport, IL: bearing 258°T), and is situated 7.9 miles south of Lena. Yellow Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil nearby, its waters often catching the pale, silver light that settles over the fields during the early morning hours. Beyond the immediate meadows, the horizon is punctuated by the distant, hazy silhouette of Hardpan Ridge, while the quiet grounds of the Unnamed Property offer a sliver of preserved wildness. Residents often look toward the gentle presence of Lake Carroll, a mere five miles away, as the landscape shifts from the dense, dark loam of the farmland into the more wooded, sheltered terrain of the surrounding countryside.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Pearl City, with the seasons dictating the slow, deliberate pace of life as corn and soybeans transform the color of the plains from spring green to harvest gold. The history of the area is tied to the labor of the soil, a legacy that persists in the sturdy, unadorned architecture and the modest, industrious nature of the local economy. While Dyslin Valley lies eight miles distant, its influence on the drainage and micro-climate of the region is felt in the way the air cools in the evenings. Life in Pearl City is defined by these cycles, where the social fabric is reinforced by the shared experience of the weather, the harvest, and the quiet, enduring stability of the Midwestern interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unnamed Property (Local Recreation) — 0.1 mi, 308° NW
Blackhawk Battlefield Park (Local Park) — 3.4 mi, 306° NW
Blackhawk War Monument (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 307° NW
Ward's Grove State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.0 mi, 303° NW
Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 7.5 mi, 002° N
Park Hills Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 7.6 mi, 073° E
Golf Course (Park) — 8.4 mi, 359° N
Krape Park (Local Park) — 8.7 mi, 087° E
Boat Rental (Attraction) — 8.9 mi, 084° E
Krape Park Band Shell (Theatre) — 9.0 mi, 085° E
Lake Le-Aqua-Na State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 10.1 mi, 000° N
Soldiers' Monument (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 078° E
Deluna Fine Art Gallery (Gallery) — 10.8 mi, 078° E
Oakdale Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 11.3 mi, 099° E
Point Rock (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 215° SW
Lee I. Binkley Council Ring (Theatre) — 18.1 mi, 303° NW
Human Foosball (Attraction) — 18.2 mi, 304° NW
Pioneer Potpourri (Attraction) — 18.3 mi, 303° NW
Ozzie's Point (Viewpoint) — 19.4 mi, 244° SW
Historic ruins (Historic Ruins) — 19.5 mi, 240° SW
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.1 mi, 239° SW · 274k acres
Apple River Fort - Interpretive Center (Museum) — 20.5 mi, 280° W
Savanna Train Car Museum (Museum) — 20.7 mi, 235° SW
Cadiz Springs State Recreation Area (State Park) — 21.7 mi, 005° N
Browntown Oak Forest State Natural Area (Nature Reserve) — 22.5 mi, 008° N
Green Island Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 24.8 mi, 256° W · 3,776 acres
White Pines Forest Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 26.4 mi, 135° SE
Castle Rock State Park (State Park) — 29.2 mi, 130° SE
Black Hawk Statue (Public Artwork) — 29.9 mi, 122° SE
Great River Gallery (Gallery) — 30.5 mi, 269° W

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