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Plum Valley Illinois Map

Explore Plum Valley, 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 Plum Valley, Illinois

How to Use This Plum Valley, Illinois Map

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

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	Plum Valley
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Will County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.457884
Longitude	-87.553712
Population	632
Density	130.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	60417
Area Code	708
County Seat	Joliet
School District	Crete-Monee Community Unit School District 201-U

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About Plum Valley, Illinois

Plum Valley is a locality in Will County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 632. The population density is 130.6 people per km². Plum Valley is located at 41.4579°N, 87.5537°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 60417.

Plum Valley emerges from the flat, heavy expanse of the Illinois interior where the horizon pulls the sky down to meet the dark, fertile loam. It lies 5.4 miles southeast of Chicago Heights, IL (from Chicago Heights, IL: bearing 128°T), and is situated 9.1 miles south-southwest of Hammond. Plum Creek cuts a deliberate, winding path through the heart of the landscape, its slow-moving waters carving a subtle depression that shelters the terrain from the relentless prairie winds. To the north, the earth rises in faint, long-reaching swells, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Stony Island Ridge haunts the western skyline like a memory of geological upheaval. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp soil and the sharp, clean scent of turning leaves as the light of late afternoon washes the fields in a bruised, golden-copper hue. Within the immediate boundaries of the land, Plum Valley Ravines 4 offers a jagged, wooded sanctuary where the topography fractures into steep, shadowed gullies that defy the otherwise leveling influence of the surrounding plains.

Economic life in Plum Valley remains tethered to the rhythmic cycles of the soil, a legacy of the settlers who first broke the prairie sod to claim this stubborn, productive ground. While the daily commerce of the area is quiet, the influence of the nearby Elizabeth A Conkey Forest provides a dense, emerald anchor for the local ecosystem, tempering the industrial sprawl that often defines the broader region. Residents often find their Sunday stillness at the edges of Deer Lake, a three-mile journey that feels like a transition into a different, more liquid silence. The structural bones of the locality—the brick facades of the older main thoroughfares and the vast, unadorned silos—speak to a history of labor and endurance, where the pace of existence is dictated not by the clock, but by the slow, inevitable turning of the seasons across the open fields.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Moeller Woods Preserve 9 (Local Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 169° S
Moeller Woods Preserve 1 (Local Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 184° S
Peter Halligan Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 296° NW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 016° N
The Lincoln Highway (Monument) — 3.3 mi, 043° NE
Lincoln Highway (Monument) — 3.4 mi, 045° NE
Goodenow Grove (State Conservation Area) — 3.9 mi, 221° SW
Saint John the Evangelist (Public Artwork) — 4.5 mi, 120° SE
Steger Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 4.5 mi, 280° W
Goodenow Grove Nature Preserve 5 (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 219° SW
Union Street Gallery (Gallery) — 5.3 mi, 306° NW
Sauk Trail Woods (Nature Reserve) — 5.4 mi, 294° NW
King's Grove (Nature Reserve) — 5.4 mi, 283° W
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Marine Protected Area) — 6.2 mi, 050° NE
Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 6.6 mi, 059° NE · 11k acres
Promise You Art House (Gallery) — 8.1 mi, 036° NE
The Artist's Den - Walk-in Ceramic Studio (Arts Centre) — 8.2 mi, 036° NE
Peteyville Christmas Lights (Attraction) — 11.1 mi, 027° NE
Former Lincoln School Entrance (Historic Ruins) — 12.7 mi, 348° N
Calumet Park (State Park) — 13.2 mi, 354° N
Old Zion Museum (Museum) — 14.3 mi, 304° NW
The Grainery Building (Attraction) — 15.6 mi, 281° W
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 15.7 mi, 334° NW
In the Game - Hollywood Park (Theme Park) — 16.9 mi, 324° NW
Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education (Museum) — 18.0 mi, 055° NE
Vanderpoel Art Museum (Museum) — 19.0 mi, 342° N
Schmuhl School (Attraction) — 19.7 mi, 281° W
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 23.7 mi, 260° W · 18k acres
Indiana Dunes State Park (State Park) — 28.4 mi, 063° NE

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