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Saint Elmo Illinois Map

Explore Saint Elmo, 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 Saint Elmo, Illinois

How to Use This Saint Elmo, Illinois Map

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

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	Saint Elmo
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Fayette County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.027266
Longitude	-88.848114
Population	1,384
Density	120.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	62458
Area Code	217
County Seat	Vandalia

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About Saint Elmo, Illinois

Saint Elmo is a locality in Fayette County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,384. The population density is 120.0 people per km². Saint Elmo is located at 39.0273°N, 88.8481°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62458.

Saint Elmo occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under an immense, pale sky. It lies 17.6 miles west-southwest of Effingham, IL (from Effingham, IL: bearing 249°T), and is situated 5.9 miles west-southwest of Altamont. The land here holds the subtle, ancient memory of tallgrass, now replaced by the rhythmic geometry of corn and soybean fields that darken to a deep emerald in the humid heat of midsummer. Only a mile away, the Saint Elmo Old City Reservoir offers a glassy surface that catches the violet hues of dusk, while the modest trickle of Brickyard Branch winds through the low-lying terrain, carving a soft path through the silt. To the distant west, the faint, hazy suggestion of Corley Ridge barely disturbs the line where the earth meets the heavens, a reminder of the tectonic shifts that shaped this interior plain long before the plow arrived. Residents often gather in Community Park, where the shade of mature trees provides a cool refuge from the intensity of the sun, and the air carries the faint, dry scent of soil and ripening stalks.

Saint Elmo emerged from the expansion of the rail lines, its layout reflecting the pragmatic ambition of those who first broke the sod to lay tracks across the flatlands. The economy has long drawn its vitality from the soil and the persistent pulse of logistics, with grain elevators standing as silent, industrial sentinels against the clouds. There is a distinct, unadorned character to the streets, where brick facades retain the heat of the day long after the sun has dipped below the western fields. Life in Saint Elmo moves with a deliberate, measured pace, dictated by the turning of the agricultural seasons and the steady flow of commerce along the transit corridors. While the world beyond the prairie often moves in a frantic blur, the people here maintain a quiet connection to the geography of their labor, finding a certain grace in the way the light levels out over the fields at the end of a long, productive afternoon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Community Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 270° W
Rock Cave State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 028° NE
Ballard Nature Center (Private Recreation) — 7.7 mi, 074° E
Wildcat Hollow State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.1 mi, 099° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 13.7 mi, 251° W
Fayette County Museum (Museum) — 13.9 mi, 251° W
Vandalia State House State Historic Site (Museum) — 14.0 mi, 251° W
Kaskaskia Dragon (Attraction) — 15.0 mi, 256° W
Village Mall Cinemas (Cinema) — 17.1 mi, 072° E
Effingham County Cultural Center and Museum (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 068° E
The Heart Theatre (Cinema) — 17.7 mi, 068° E
Stephen A. Forbest State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 19.3 mi, 170° S
Hidden Springs State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 19.8 mi, 021° N
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 21.1 mi, 170° S
Dieterich Community Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 25.1 mi, 085° E
Carlyle Lake (Recreation Area) — 25.4 mi, 229° SW
Clay County Historical Society (Museum) — 25.7 mi, 133° SE
Lake Shelbyville (Recreation Area) — 26.6 mi, 008° N
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 26.9 mi, 069° E
NYC-IC RR Signal Tower (Attraction) — 28.1 mi, 333° NW
CE&I Depot (Attraction) — 28.1 mi, 334° NW
Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 31.1 mi, 012° N
Ladue Auditorium (Theatre) — 31.5 mi, 253° W
The Jesus Statue (Public Artwork) — 31.5 mi, 253° W
Ganton Circle (Monument) — 31.5 mi, 253° W
Party Cove (Attraction) — 31.5 mi, 227° SW
Richard W. Bock Sculpture Museum (Museum) — 31.6 mi, 253° W
Greenville University Factory Theatre (Theatre) — 31.6 mi, 252° W
Fox Ridge State Park (State Park) — 44.2 mi, 055° NE
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 75.1 mi, 130° SE · 20k acres

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