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Sicily Illinois Map

Explore Sicily, 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 Sicily, Illinois

How to Use This Sicily, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.590051
Longitude	-89.491206
Population	180
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	62558, 62451
Area Code	217
County Seat	Taylorville

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About Sicily, Illinois

Sicily is a locality in Christian County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Sicily is located at 39.5901°N, 89.4912°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 62558, 62451.

Sicily emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Illinois prairie like a quiet pause in the long, rhythmic stretch of corn and soybean fields. It lies 10.9 miles west-northwest of Taylorville, IL (from Taylorville, IL: bearing 285°T), and is situated 4.7 miles east of Pawnee. The landscape surrounding Sicily is defined by the steady, unyielding work of the plow and the heavy, fertile soil that anchors the region to the earth. To the east, the horizon is broken only by the distant, hazy suggestion of Sand Ridge, a subtle rise that offers the only vertical relief against the wide Midwestern sky. Clear Creek winds its way through the nearby landscape, a slender, persistent ribbon of water that carves a slow path through the silt and heavy clay, while the calm expanse of Sangchris Lake creates a sprawling, glass-like stillness that catches the amber light of late afternoon.

Sicily carries the quiet weight of a place built upon the industry of the soil, where the economy is tethered to the seasonal pulse of harvest and the patient maintenance of the land. The nearby Sangchris Lake State Resource Area serves as a sanctuary from the rigid geometry of the surrounding farms, providing a quiet corridor of timber and grass where the air feels cooler and the pace of the day slows to match the movement of the clouds. Life in Sicily is marked by the pragmatism of those who have long understood that prosperity is measured by the turn of the seasons and the integrity of the local crop. There is a particular clarity to the dusk here, when the shadows of the grain elevators stretch across the roads and the stillness of the plains settles over the houses, grounding the inhabitants in a rhythm that feels both ancient and entirely their own.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 0.6 mi, 073° E
Ivarene Wild Life Sanctuary (Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 081° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 4.7 mi, 282° W
Jaynes Park (Local Park) — 9.5 mi, 107° E
Henson Robinson Zoo (Local Recreation) — 10.6 mi, 333° NW
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 104° E
Taylorville Cinema (Cinema) — 10.8 mi, 105° E
Christian County Coal Mine Museum (Museum) — 10.8 mi, 105° E
Taylorville Chautaugua Auditorium (Theatre) — 11.0 mi, 108° E
Trutter Museum (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 324° NW
The Muni (Theatre) — 11.5 mi, 336° NW
Lincoln Memorial (Monument) — 11.7 mi, 325° NW
Impermanent Column (Public Artwork) — 12.0 mi, 325° NW
Rotary Sundial (Attraction) — 13.1 mi, 318° NW
Selvaggio Historic Arches (Attraction) — 13.2 mi, 318° NW
AMC Showplace 8 (Cinema) — 13.5 mi, 333° NW
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 15.4 mi, 284° W
Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 329° NW
Lauterbach Man Statue (Attraction) — 15.7 mi, 320° NW
War Memorial (Monument) — 15.9 mi, 018° N
Gallery 1624 (Gallery) — 16.2 mi, 326° NW
Margery Adams Wildlife Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 16.2 mi, 335° NW
Elijah Iles House (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 330° NW
Vachel Lindsay Home (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 329° NW
Carpenter Park (Local Recreation) — 20.1 mi, 339° N
Carpenter Park Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 20.2 mi, 338° N
Lincolns New Salem State Park (State Park) — 31.5 mi, 326° NW
Beaver Dam State Park (State Park) — 36.0 mi, 224° SW
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 59.6 mi, 334° NW · 13k acres
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 63.0 mi, 215° SW · 32k acres

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