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Rutland Illinois Map

Explore Rutland, 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 Rutland, Illinois

How to Use This Rutland, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.984199
Longitude	-89.041747
Population	259
Density	144.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	61358
Area Code	815
County Seat	Ottawa
School District	Fieldcrest Community Unit School District 6

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About Rutland, Illinois

Rutland is a locality in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 259. The population density is 144.1 people per km². Rutland is located at 40.9842°N, 89.0417°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rutland is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61358.

Rutland anchors itself firmly within the vast, sun-bleached expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising under a sky of immense, shifting gray. It lies 14.3 miles southwest of Streator, IL (from Streator, IL: bearing 229°T), and is situated 17.0 miles north of El Paso. Prairie Creek carves a thin, rhythmic line through the black-soil fields, its narrow bed acting as the primary artery for a landscape defined by the quiet endurance of agriculture. The air here holds the scent of dry corn husks and turned earth, particularly in the long, slanted light of late afternoon when the shadows of grain silos lengthen across the gravel roads. To the west, the land rises in subtle, barely perceptible increments, a slow climb toward the distant rise of Smiths Mound, while the local geography remains anchored by the flat, fertile persistence of the plains.

Rutland functions as a quiet node in a regional economy built upon the heavy labor of the harvest and the steady movement of rail and truck. The legacy of the midwestern grid remains visible in the orderly layout of the streets, where the brick structures of a previous era stand as testament to a time when the railroad dictated the pulse of the local trade. While the recreation seeker might drive five miles to City Park for a respite in the shade, the rhythm of daily life remains tethered to the seasonal cycles of the fields that press against the village edges. The distance from the nearest large body of water, Sawmill Lake, reinforces the inland character of the region, where the identity of the people is forged not by the water, but by the deep, dark soil and the unwavering reach of the horizon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

City Park (Local Park) — 4.7 mi, 351° N
Veteran's Park (Local Park) — 5.1 mi, 173° S
Tall Oaks Country Club (Local Recreation) — 5.9 mi, 240° SW
Engle Lane Theater (Theatre) — 13.0 mi, 048° NE
Twin Creeks Golf Course (Park) — 13.9 mi, 067° NE
Reuben G. Soderstrom (Public Artwork) — 14.5 mi, 048° NE
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 14.5 mi, 049° NE
ATSF Depot (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 050° NE
Pluto Monument (Monument) — 15.6 mi, 044° NE
Project XV Museum (Museum) — 17.0 mi, 176° S
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.7 mi, 293° NW · 13k acres
Marshall State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.7 mi, 297° NW
Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 18.4 mi, 002° N
Starved Rock State Park (State Conservation Area) — 22.1 mi, 007° N
Ronald Reagan Museum (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 212° SW
Becker Auditorium (Theatre) — 22.2 mi, 212° SW
Ladd School Subway (Attraction) — 22.2 mi, 108° E
Illinois Canyon (Viewpoint) — 22.6 mi, 014° N
Pontiac - Oakland Museum and Resource Center (Museum) — 22.7 mi, 108° E
Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum (Museum) — 22.7 mi, 108° E
Livingston County War Museum (Museum) — 22.7 mi, 108° E
Starved Rock Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 23.1 mi, 000° N
Town Theater (Cinema) — 23.6 mi, 259° W
Plum Island Site (Historic Ruins) — 23.6 mi, 006° N
Buffalo Rock State Park (State Park) — 23.8 mi, 014° N
Santa Fe Train Mural (Monument) — 24.0 mi, 260° W
AMC Classic Peru Mall 8 (Cinema) — 26.0 mi, 350° N
Hennepin Canal (State Recreation Area) — 26.5 mi, 323° NW
Spring Lake (State Recreation Area) — 33.3 mi, 232° SW
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 50.3 mi, 057° NE · 18k acres

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