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Riggston Illinois Map

Explore Riggston, 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 Riggston, Illinois

How to Use This Riggston, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.695324
Longitude	-90.42318
Population	14
Density	207.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	62694
Area Code	217
County Seat	Winchester
School District	Winchester Community Unit School District 1

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About Riggston, Illinois

Riggston is a locality in Scott County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 14. The population density is 207.9 people per km². Riggston is located at 39.6953°N, 90.4232°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62694.

Riggston occupies a quiet expanse of Illinois prairie where the horizon remains wide and indifferent to the passage of clouds. It lies 10.7 miles west-southwest of Jacksonville, IL (from Jacksonville, IL: bearing 256°T), and is situated 10.4 miles west of South Jacksonville. The landscape is defined by the steady work of agriculture, defined by the low, insistent flow of Plum Creek just a mile to the west and the stillness of Freesen Lake, which sits two miles out, catching the pale, flat light of the Midwestern sky. In the cooler hours of the morning, a thin mist often clings to the stalks of drying corn, grounding the earth in a muted palette of brown and gold. To the far distance, the faint, blue-gray suggestion of Spunky Ridge interrupts the otherwise level plane, providing a solitary vertical anchor in a world dominated by the horizontal.

Riggston maintains a character forged in the long, methodical cycles of the grain trade and the persistent commerce of the rail lines that once dictated the growth of the region. The economy remains tethered to the soil, with silos acting as the primary sentinels over a grid of roads that connect the local farms to the broader markets. Life moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, occasionally punctuated by the activity at Lenz Field & Sports Complex, where the local spirit manifests in the collective attention of a Friday night game. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain dips toward the subtle depression of Sugar Hollow, a reminder of the ancient, slow-moving shifts that shaped this ground long before the first homesteaders arrived.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lenz Field & Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 9.0 mi, 068° E
Prairie Land Heritage Museam (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 082° E
Community Park (Local Park) — 10.2 mi, 081° E
Strawn Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 10.4 mi, 076° E
Illinois Theater (Cinema) — 10.7 mi, 075° E
Ray Norbut State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.8 mi, 254° W
Nichols Park (Local Park) — 10.9 mi, 086° E
Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.9 mi, 330° NW · 7,396 acres
Naples Mound 8 (Historic Ruins) — 12.0 mi, 269° W
217 Terror Haunted House (Attraction) — 14.7 mi, 169° S
Woodlawn Farm Underground RR (Historic Ruins) — 15.3 mi, 079° E
Meredosia Refuge Fee (Conservation Area) — 15.9 mi, 334° NW
America's Most Wanted Bird (Public Artwork) — 16.1 mi, 273° W
Weinberg-King State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.2 mi, 336° NW
Beardstown River Museum (Museum) — 22.3 mi, 358° N
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Il (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.2 mi, 184° S · 665 acres
Potawatomi Trail of Death - Island Grove Encampment (Monument) — 25.2 mi, 079° E
Siloam Springs State Park (State Park) — 26.2 mi, 303° NW
City of Greenfield Reservoir (State Recreation Area) — 26.9 mi, 154° SE
Jake's Point Overlook (Viewpoint) — 27.9 mi, 037° NE
Dr. Charles Chandler Memorial (Monument) — 28.1 mi, 031° NE
New Philadelphia National Historic Site interpretive kiosk (Monument) — 28.6 mi, 271° W
Center for American Archeology Museum (Museum) — 29.2 mi, 200° S
Skip Anderson Big Timber Preservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 30.1 mi, 201° S
Theater in the park at New Salem (Theatre) — 36.3 mi, 057° NE
AMC Classic Springfield 12 (Cinema) — 37.2 mi, 083° E
Menard County Historical Museum (Museum) — 37.4 mi, 054° NE
John Stoeckley's Reflections of Missouri Gallery (Gallery) — 37.7 mi, 243° SW
Beaver Dam State Park (State Park) — 40.5 mi, 146° SE

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