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Rosewood Heights Illinois Map

Explore Rosewood Heights, 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 Rosewood Heights, Illinois

How to Use This Rosewood Heights, Illinois Map

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

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	Rosewood Heights
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Madison County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.887788
Longitude	-90.073246
Population	3,971
Density	917.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	62024
Area Code	309
County Seat	Edwardsville
School District	Roxana Community Unit School District 1

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About Rosewood Heights, Illinois

Rosewood Heights is a locality in Madison County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,971. The population density is 917.5 people per km². Rosewood Heights is located at 38.8878°N, 90.0732°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62024.

Rosewood Heights occupies a quiet stretch of the Illinois landscape where the East Fork Wood River carves a slow, deliberate path through the earth. It lies 2.0 miles north-northeast of Wood River, IL (from Wood River, IL: bearing 20°T), and is situated 5.4 miles east of Alton. The terrain here favors the heavy, fertile soil of the prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and the light at dusk turns the fields into a bruised, copper glow. Two miles to the north, the waters of Paridise Lake hold the stillness of the afternoon, reflecting the vast Midwestern sky in a dark, glassy expanse. Beyond the immediate flatlands, the distant silhouette of Les Mamelles rises against the western skyline like a faint, serrated promise of elevation, while the nearby grounds of Kutter Park offer a sanctuary of oak and wild grass that buffers the edge of the residential grid.

Industrial ambition and the steady hum of the local economy have long been tethered to the movement of grain and the seasonal labor of the surrounding farmland. Rosewood Heights carries the weight of a history built on rail and furrow, where the brick structures of the center reflect a pragmatic, hardworking lineage that persists through the changing cycles of the market. The pace of life is dictated by the rhythm of the harvest and the persistent, quiet growth of the regional economy, which draws its vitality from the land rather than the frantic pulse of larger hubs. Life here finds its texture in the simple repetition of the seasons, where the wind moves through the corn and soybeans with a low, rushing sound, and the people maintain a grounded, deliberate connection to the soil that sustains them.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Kutter Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 342° N
Vfw Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 019° N
Memorial for the Veterens of All Wars (Monument) — 1.4 mi, 042° NE
East Alton Recreation Center (Local Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 251° W
Bethalto Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 1.9 mi, 002° N
City Of Alton Sports Fields (Local Recreation) — 2.2 mi, 314° NW
Freedom Shrine (Monument) — 2.3 mi, 306° NW
Bethalto Historical Museum (Museum) — 2.3 mi, 048° NE
Worker's Memorial (Monument) — 2.3 mi, 309° NW
Charles Raich Field (Stadium) — 2.6 mi, 183° S
Maple Island (Local Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 220° SW
Edward "ted" And Pat Jones-confluence Point State Park (State Park) — 3.7 mi, 219° SW
Tooth Carving (Public Artwork) — 3.9 mi, 285° W
Robert Pershing Wadlow (Attraction) — 3.9 mi, 287° W
Golf Course (Park) — 4.7 mi, 287° W
Blind (Viewpoint) — 5.2 mi, 258° W
Columbia Bottom Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 214° SW
Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 195° S
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.6 mi, 231° SW · 32k acres
Alton Hauntings Ghost Tours (Attraction) — 5.7 mi, 272° W
Hartford Castle (Historic Castle / Fort) — 6.1 mi, 186° S
Structure (Historic Ruins) — 6.1 mi, 185° S
Jacoby Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 6.2 mi, 272° W
Alton Military Prison Site (Attraction) — 6.3 mi, 272° W
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 7.1 mi, 135° SE
Poag Sand Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 7.1 mi, 163° S
Ralph Korte Stadium (Stadium) — 8.0 mi, 155° SE
Wpa Outdoor Living room (Historic Ruins) — 8.7 mi, 242° SW
Horshoe Lake State Park (State Park) — 12.3 mi, 181° S
Gateway Arch National Park (National Park) — 18.8 mi, 198° S · 85 acres

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