Explore Princeville, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Princeville, 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 Princeville.
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 | Princeville |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Peoria County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.929759 |
| Longitude | -89.757602 |
| Population | 1,636 |
| Density | 372.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61559 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| County Seat | Peoria |
| School District | Princeville Community Unit School District 326 |
Princeville rises from the flat, fertile expanse of the Illinois prairie like a quiet geometry of brick and shingle set against an infinite sky. It lies 18.5 miles north-northwest of Peoria, IL (from Peoria, IL: bearing 332°T), and is situated 14.2 miles west of Chillicothe. The horizon here is dominated by the seasonal cycle of corn and soybeans, stretching outward toward the subtle depression of Quail Meadow eight miles to the west, while Prince Run meanders through the landscape just a mile away, its banks marked by the persistent growth of riparian brush. On clear days, the faint, jagged silhouette of Hoxie Ridge asserts itself on the far horizon, a distant reminder of a more tectonic earth. Within the center of the village, City Park provides a concentrated space of manicured green, offering a respite from the vast, open intensity of the surrounding plains.
Princeville maintains an economy tethered to the rhythmic demands of the soil, grounded in the legacy of the nineteenth-century pioneers who recognized the potential in this high-yielding dirt. The architecture of the storefronts recalls an era of expansion, where the primary concern was the efficient transit of grain and the maintenance of a stable, self-reliant life. Beyond the immediate village limits, the landscape deepens into the rural quietude of the Midwest, where the stillness is only occasionally broken by the low hum of agricultural machinery or the movement of wind across the stalks. A short distance away, the quiet waters of Underwood Pond mirror the shifting colors of the dusk, capturing the amber light that settles over the fields before the long, dark stretch of the prairie night begins.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Princeville, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.929759, -89.757602. 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 Princeville includes the ZIP code (61559), telephone area code (815), county seat of Peoria County (Peoria), and school district assignment (Princeville Community Unit School District 326).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |