Scottville Illinois Map

About Scottville, Illinois

Scottville is a locality in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 94. The population density is 31.4 people per km². Scottville is located at 39.4803°N, 90.1048°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 62674.

Scottville breathes the wide, flat air of southern Macoupin County, a place where the land stretches out like a rumpled quilt under a sky that can shift from bruised purple at dusk to an astonishing, almost liquid blue. It lies 33.1 miles south-west of Springfield, IL (from Springfield, IL: bearing 228°T), and is situated 18.7 miles south-south-east of Jacksonville. The terrain here is a gentle, yielding country, the sort that promises good earth for planting, with fields of corn and soybeans whispering secrets in the breeze. Drainage ditches, carved with a practical hand, snake through the landscape, carrying the slow, brown water toward larger rivers, and here and there, a lone oak or a stand of sycamores breaks the horizon, their branches reaching like skeletal fingers against the vast expanse. The houses of Scottville themselves are a humble collection, paint faded by sun and time, their porches worn smooth by generations of feet. The story of Scottville is written in the soil and the memory of industry. Once, this land hummed with the promise of coal, its seams whispering of a different kind of wealth that once fueled the engines of progress, though the deep shafts are long since quieted, leaving only echoes in the local lore and perhaps a faint, lingering scent in the air after a heavy rain. Now, the economy is a quieter affair, tied to the bounty of the fertile earth, the rhythm of the agricultural seasons dictating the pulse of life. Children here grow up with the smell of freshly turned soil and the distant drone of tractors, a simple, grounded existence that feels as natural as the slow arc of the sun across the prairie sky.

About This Scottville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Scottville, Illinois — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 39.480325, -90.104834. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Scottville and Macoupin County.

Detailed location data for Scottville includes the ZIP code (62674), telephone area code (217), county seat of Macoupin County (Carlinville), and school district assignment (Northwestern Community Unit School District 2). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Scottville is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.