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Rockport Illinois Map

Explore Rockport, 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 Rockport, Illinois

How to Use This Rockport, Illinois Map

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

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.

CityRockport
StateIllinois (IL)
CountyPike County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude39.538936
Longitude-91.008746
Population67
Density60.3 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code62370
Area Code217
County SeatPittsfield
School DistrictPikeland Community Unit School District 10

About Rockport, Illinois

Rockport is a locality in Pike County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 67. The population density is 60.3 people per km². Rockport is located at 39.5389°N, 91.0087°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62370.

Rockport occupies a quiet corner of the Illinois landscape where the earth settles into a tapestry of deep, fertile soil and expansive, open sky. It lies 34.7 miles southeast of Quincy, IL (from Quincy, IL: bearing 142°T), and is situated 6.6 miles north-northeast of Louisiana. The horizon stretches wide, marked by the steady, rhythmic posture of farmland that gives way to the shadowed, uneven silhouettes of The Pinnacle rising in the distance. Nearby, the water of Old Sny remains a still, reflective presence in the landscape, while the modest flow of Jordan Slough carves a subtle path through the terrain. The air here holds a particular clarity at dusk, when the light turns a soft, bruised purple and the silhouette of the trees becomes a sharp, dark ink against the fading warmth of the day.

History in Rockport is measured not in grand monuments, but in the slow, persistent labor of families who have worked this ground for generations, turning the heavy loam of the Horton-Dutch Creek Settling Basin into a reliable economy of corn and soybeans. The rhythm of the days is dictated by the turning seasons and the quiet commerce of the regional trade, with the Ray Norbut State Fish and Wildlife Area serving as a testament to the wilder, unmanaged life that persists on the edge of the fields. Life in Rockport moves with a deliberate, unadorned grace, where the weight of the past is felt in the sturdy, weathered architecture of the local structures and the quiet resilience of those who continue to cultivate this inland expanse.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Ray Norbut State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 340° N
  • Shanks (Ted) Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 255° W
  • Murphy Bay Bed (Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 276° W
  • Drift Island (Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 276° W
  • Great River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.0 mi, 176° S · 10k acres
  • Karl's Movies (Cinema) — 6.6 mi, 199° S
  • John Stoeckley's Reflections of Missouri Gallery (Gallery) — 6.8 mi, 200° S
  • Vfw Park (Local Park) — 6.9 mi, 199° S
  • Sunset Park (Local Park) — 7.3 mi, 203° SW
  • Scenic View (Viewpoint) — 9.8 mi, 283° W
  • Calumet Creek Access (State Recreation Area) — 9.9 mi, 167° S
  • New Philadelphia National Historic Site interpretive kiosk (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 013° N
  • Ms Rv Pools 11-22 Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 14.0 mi, 300° NW
  • America's Most Wanted Bird (Public Artwork) — 19.1 mi, 052° NE
  • Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.3 mi, 150° SE · 7,659 acres
  • Naples Mound 8 (Historic Ruins) — 21.9 mi, 061° NE
  • William Henry Hatch (Monument) — 22.0 mi, 302° NW
  • Art Gallery 310 (Gallery) — 22.0 mi, 303° NW
  • Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 22.2 mi, 303° NW
  • Mound House (Historic Ruins) — 22.9 mi, 098° E
  • Siloam Springs State Park (State Park) — 23.2 mi, 010° N
  • Bay Island Conservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 24.2 mi, 305° NW
  • Skip Anderson Big Timber Preservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 27.0 mi, 130° SE
  • Center for American Archeology Museum (Museum) — 27.0 mi, 128° SE
  • Senate Theatre (Cinema) — 28.5 mi, 155° SE
  • Vandalia Historical Center (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 238° SW
  • Cuivre River State Park (State Park) — 31.8 mi, 173° S
  • 217 Terror Haunted House (Attraction) — 34.1 mi, 096° E
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum (Museum) — 34.5 mi, 322° NW
  • History Museum on the Square (Museum) — 34.5 mi, 322° NW

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About This Rockport Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rockport, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.538936, -91.008746. 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 Rockport includes the ZIP code (62370), telephone area code (217), county seat of Pike County (Pittsfield), and school district assignment (Pikeland Community Unit School District 10).

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.