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Sandoval Illinois Map

Explore Sandoval, 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 Sandoval, Illinois

How to Use This Sandoval, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	38.615604
Longitude	-89.114234
Population	1,157
Density	448.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62882
Area Code	618
County Seat	Salem
School District	Sandoval Community Unit School District 501

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About Sandoval, Illinois

Sandoval is a locality in Marion County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,157. The population density is 448.5 people per km². Sandoval is located at 38.6156°N, 89.1142°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Sandoval is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62882.

Sandoval endures as a quiet convergence of flat, fertile earth where the sky asserts its vastness over the Illinois plains. It lies 6.3 miles north of Centralia, IL (from Centralia, IL: bearing 9°T), and is situated 9.1 miles west of Salem. The landscape here is defined by the steady, unyielding expansion of agriculture, where the horizon is partitioned by the emerald stalks of corn and the low, dusty gold of soybean fields. Only a mile to the west, Prairie Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil, its banks shaded by dense thickets of willow and oak that break the uniformity of the flatlands. Further afield, the landscape remains largely level, though the faint, hazy suggestion of the Pelican Pouch rises like a phantom silhouette against the western sky, a distant reminder of geological shifts far beyond these immediate fields. When the light of late afternoon slants low across the furrows, it casts long, amber shadows that seem to anchor Sandoval firmly to the bedrock of the Midwest.

Sandoval carries the weight of a history rooted in the expansion of the rail lines, a heritage that once dictated the pulse of local commerce and movement. The economy has long drawn its vitality from the soil and the legacy of transit, maintaining a character shaped by the steady, repetitive cycles of the harvest and the maintenance of essential infrastructure. Residents often seek the quietude of the land at Unknown Park, where the silence is broken only by the movement of wind through the prairie grasses, or they look toward the still, reflective surface of Old Reservoir for a moment of respite from the day. Life in Sandoval moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own geography, finding beauty in the stark, clean lines of the grain elevators and the way the evening air cools the asphalt after a long, humid day of labor.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unknown Park (Local Park) — 3.0 mi, 099° E
Foundation Park (Local Park) — 5.5 mi, 180° S
Raccoon Lake Park (Local Recreation) — 5.9 mi, 160° S
T-33 Shooting Star (Monument) — 6.1 mi, 201° S
Nike Ajax Missile (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 198° S
East Fork Management Unit State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.6 mi, 335° NW
Carlyle Lake (Recreation Area) — 7.7 mi, 311° NW
Third Principal Meridian (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 189° S
Eldon Hazlet (State Recreation Area) — 11.0 mi, 294° NW
Party Cove (Attraction) — 11.2 mi, 308° NW
Kaskaskia River - Carlyle (Conservation Area) — 12.7 mi, 259° W
Carlyle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.5 mi, 348° N
Stephen A. Forbest State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 19.2 mi, 066° NE
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 19.6 mi, 067° NE
Carl L Schweinfurth Museum and Interpretive Center (Museum) — 22.1 mi, 152° SE
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 22.5 mi, 152° SE
Granada (Theatre) — 23.5 mi, 151° SE
Unique Stones (Public Artwork) — 23.5 mi, 154° SE
Vandalia State House State Historic Site (Museum) — 23.9 mi, 003° N
Fayette County Museum (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 003° N
Greenville University Factory Theatre (Theatre) — 24.5 mi, 320° NW
Kaskaskia Dragon (Attraction) — 24.8 mi, 359° N
Richard W. Bock Sculpture Museum (Museum) — 24.9 mi, 320° NW
Lookout Point (Viewpoint) — 27.3 mi, 209° SW
Clay County Historical Society (Museum) — 34.8 mi, 072° E
Pyramid State Recreation Area (State Park) — 40.4 mi, 203° SW
Scenic Red Caboose (Attraction) — 43.1 mi, 268° W
Browns Mound (Historic Ruins) — 43.1 mi, 278° W
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 56.7 mi, 200° S · 274k acres
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 58.6 mi, 180° S · 91k acres

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