Raleigh Illinois Map
Explore Raleigh, 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 Raleigh, Illinois
How to Use This Raleigh, Illinois Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Raleigh, 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 Raleigh.
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 | Raleigh |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Saline County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.826992 |
| Longitude | -88.531996 |
| Population | 284 |
| Density | 55.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62977 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| County Seat | Harrisburg |
| School District | Eldorado Community Unit School District 4 |
About Raleigh, Illinois
Raleigh is a locality in Saline County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 284. The population density is 55.5 people per km². Raleigh is located at 37.8270°N, 88.5320°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Raleigh is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62977.Raleigh emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Illinois interior as a quiet intersection of sky and soil. It lies 22.9 miles east-northeast of Marion, IL (from Marion, IL: bearing 73°T), and is situated 6.1 miles north of Harrisburg. Sunlight stretches thin and pale over the fields here, illuminating the dust that hangs in the air long after the tractors have retreated toward their sheds. To the east, the land holds the memory of ancient glacial shifts, flattening the earth into a vast, fertile stage where the wind moves with an uninterrupted, rhythmic weight. Wolf Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path just a mile away, its banks thick with the tangled growth of cottonwood and willow that drink deep from the dark, heavy earth. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, the distant silhouette of Big Ridge breaks the monotony of the plains, a faint ripple against the western sky that anchors the perspective of those who live under this wide, unblinking dome of light.
Raleigh carries the quiet gravity of a settlement forged in the era of coal and stubborn cultivation, where the economy has shifted from the deep, subterranean extraction of the past to the seasonal pulse of wide-scale agriculture. The ghosts of the mining days remain in the architecture of the older houses and the layout of the roads, though the current pace is dictated entirely by the planting and the harvest. Residents find their rare moments of stillness at the edge of the Eldorado Reservoir, where the water reflects the shifting clouds with a mirror-like precision, or during an afternoon wandering the quiet paths of Karel Park. Life in Raleigh moves with a deliberate, singular focus, colored by the seasonal transition of the corn and soybean crops that define the perimeter of the world, creating a landscape that feels less like a static point on a map and more like a continuous, living labor.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Karel Park (Local Park) — 1.6 mi, 090° E
- Homestead of Judge Samuel Elder (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 099° E
- Big John (Public Artwork) — 5.3 mi, 105° E
- David Nave Insurance (Attraction) — 6.1 mi, 189° S
- WSILTV 3 (Harrisburg) Tower (Viewpoint) — 6.2 mi, 185° S
- Whites Florist (Attraction) — 6.2 mi, 189° S
- Harrisburg Daily Register (Attraction) — 6.2 mi, 184° S
- Looking Glass Enterprises (Attraction) — 6.2 mi, 190° S
- Tunnel Hill (State Recreation Area) — 7.8 mi, 188° S
- Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 10.5 mi, 165° S · 274k acres
- Dunbar School (Historic Ruins) — 10.7 mi, 206° SW
- Gary Jones Memorial (Monument) — 10.8 mi, 206° SW
- Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 14.7 mi, 122° SE · 7,712 acres
- Garden Of The Gods Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 15.6 mi, 152° SE · 3,978 acres
- Burden Falls Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 16.6 mi, 195° S · 3,740 acres
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About This Raleigh Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Raleigh, Illinois. Coordinates: 37.826992, -88.531996. 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 Raleigh includes the ZIP code (62977), telephone area code (618), county seat of Saline County (Harrisburg), and school district assignment (Eldorado Community Unit School District 4).
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. |
