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Penfield Illinois Map

Explore Penfield, 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 Penfield, Illinois

How to Use This Penfield, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.303368
Longitude	-87.946701
Population	151
Density	226.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	61862
Area Code	309
County Seat	Urbana
School District	Armstrong Township High School District 225

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About Penfield, Illinois

Penfield is a locality in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 151. The population density is 226.9 people per km². Penfield is located at 40.3034°N, 87.9467°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 61862.

Penfield emerges from the vast, flat expanse of the Illinois prairie, defined by the quiet persistence of Buck Creek as it carves a path through the dark, fertile loam. It lies 11.0 miles east of Rantoul, IL (from Rantoul, IL: bearing 92°T), and is situated 19.1 miles northeast of Urbana. The landscape here is a wide-open canvas of horizon, where the sky claims more territory than the earth, and the light at dusk bleeds a bruised violet across the flattened fields. To the west, the distant silhouette of Yankee Ridge offers a faint, jagged interruption to the otherwise unbroken line of the plains, while the air remains heavy with the scent of turned soil and the impending season. The solitude of the interior is absolute, broken only by the rustle of dry stalks or the sudden, sharp movement of a hawk circling above the open expanse.

Penfield functions as a quiet sentinel of the agricultural cycle, its economy tied inextricably to the rhythms of planting and harvest that have anchored the region for generations. The legacy of the land is preserved in the nearby Roessler Memorial Park, a quiet refuge where the prairie grass still whispers of the deep, black-dirt history of the state. While the University of Illinois Research Forest remains a distant northern neighbor, the local pulse is measured in the steady operations of grain elevators and the passage of heavy machinery down narrow roads. Life in Penfield moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, indifferent to the clamor of distant centers, preferring the honest, unadorned reality of a life lived close to the earth and the seasonal turning of the grain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tomlinson Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 3.6 mi, 002° N
Gifford War Memorial (Monument) — 3.9 mi, 266° W
Roessler Memorial Park (Local Park) — 4.0 mi, 267° W
Point Pleasant Addition Land Acquisition (Local Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 342° N
Middle Fork Land Acquisition Projec (Local Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 346° N
Middle Fork State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 111° E
Brookhill Park (Local Park) — 9.7 mi, 283° W
Herschel Workman State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.1 mi, 021° N
Bill Seeber Sports Complex & Aquatic Center (Local Recreation) — 11.0 mi, 266° W
Horseshoe Bottom Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 11.4 mi, 117° SE
Kickapoo Rail Trail (Local Recreation) — 13.2 mi, 178° S
Kennekuk Cove County Park (State Recreation Area) — 13.3 mi, 125° SE
Kickapoo State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 13.4 mi, 133° SE
North Fork Vermilion River (Conservation Area) — 14.2 mi, 075° E
Peck's Point (Viewpoint) — 15.5 mi, 135° SE
Salt Fork Vermilion River (Conservation Area) — 15.8 mi, 174° S
Homer Lake Interpretive Center (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 187° S
Everyday Heroes (Monument) — 18.3 mi, 113° SE
Mr. Big Beatle Finds His Way (Public Artwork) — 18.5 mi, 229° SW
The Gilbert Gallery (Gallery) — 19.1 mi, 226° SW
Cinema Gallery (Gallery) — 19.1 mi, 226° SW
AMC Classic Village Mall 6 (Cinema) — 19.1 mi, 118° SE
Yingying Zhang Memorial Garden (Monument) — 19.6 mi, 228° SW
Carl R. Woese Museum (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 227° SW
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music (Museum) — 20.3 mi, 228° SW
Vermillion County Museum (Museum) — 20.4 mi, 126° SE
Krannert Art Museum (Museum) — 20.4 mi, 227° SW
Giertz Gallery (Gallery) — 21.6 mi, 237° SW
Parkland Theatre (Theatre) — 21.7 mi, 237° SW
Sugar Creek (Attraction) — 32.6 mi, 043° NE

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