Explore Radom, 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 Radom, 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 Radom.
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 | Radom |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Washington County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.281994 |
| Longitude | -89.192299 |
| Population | 183 |
| Density | 67.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62876 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| County Seat | Nashville |
| School District | Ashley Community Consolidated School District 15 |
Radom occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois prairie where the horizon stretches flat and wide, broken only by the silhouettes of grain elevators and the occasional stand of timber. It lies 15.9 miles west of Mount Vernon, IL (from Mount Vernon, IL: bearing 261°T), and is situated 17.1 miles south of Centralia. The land remains defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons, with the Little Muddy River carving a modest, winding path just a mile from the center. Light here possesses a particular clarity at dusk, casting long, bruised shadows across the fields that seem to pull the sky down until the earth and heavens nearly touch. To the west, the faint, jagged suggestion of the Pelican Pouch occasionally ghosts the horizon, though the immediate terrain remains dominated by the dark, fertile loam that feeds the surrounding acreage. Beyond the fields, the quiet waters of the I C R R Reservoir hold the stillness of the afternoon, reflecting the vast, unbroken canopy of the Midwestern sky.
Radom retains the steady, industrious pulse of a settlement built upon the hard labor of agriculture, where the rhythms of planting and harvest dictate the tempo of the calendar. The architecture speaks of an immigrant heritage, with brick structures and modest homes standing as quiet witnesses to the generations who broke this soil to establish a life on the plains. Residents often find respite in the nearby Washington County State Natural Area, a landscape that preserves the native character of the region far from the noise of modern industry. Life in Radom operates with a sense of deliberate continuity, where the local economy remains tethered to the health of the crops and the resilience of the people who work them. Every evening, the air cools and settles over the grid of the streets, carrying the faint, dry scent of dust and curing stalks that marks the character of this particular place.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Radom, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.281994, -89.192299. 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 Radom includes the ZIP code (62876), telephone area code (618), county seat of Washington County (Nashville), and school district assignment (Ashley Community Consolidated School District 15).
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. |