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Smithville Illinois Map

Explore Smithville, 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 Smithville, Illinois

How to Use This Smithville, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	40.658954
Longitude	-89.803114
Population	157
Density	47.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	62828, 61536
Area Code	618, 815
County Seat	Fairfield
School District	Farmington Central Community Unit School District 265

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About Smithville, Illinois

Smithville is a locality in Wayne County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 157. The population density is 47.9 people per km². Smithville is located at 40.6590°N, 89.8031°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 62828, 61536.

Smithville occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois interior, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that seems to press closer to the earth at dusk. It lies 17.2 miles east of Mount Vernon, IL (from Mount Vernon, IL: bearing 101°T), and is situated 14.6 miles west-southwest of Fairfield. The land around Smithville is defined by the steady, unpretentious geometry of farmland, punctuated by the thick, tangled greenery of Karcher's Post Oak Woods Nature Preserve. To the east, the silhouette of Fleming Ridge rises against the twilight, a muted charcoal line that anchors the perspective, while the slow, silt-heavy waters of Auxier Creek carve a path through the fields just a mile from the center. Light here possesses a particular quality, filtering through the tall prairie grasses and the dense woodlots to cast long, amber shadows that turn the grain elevators into monolithic sculptures of gray and rust.

Smithville emerged from the labor of early settlers who recognized the fertility of the black loam, establishing an economy that remains tethered to the seasonal pulse of corn and soybean harvests. The rhythm of daily life follows the mechanical hum of tractors and the distant, rhythmic clatter of rail lines, a cadence that has persisted since the town’s founding. Beyond the cultivated rows, the quiet waters of Olan Bullock Lake offer a mirror to the shifting clouds, serving as a rare point of stillness in a landscape otherwise dedicated to production. Residents maintain a reserved, practical character, shaped by a history of hard winters and the endurance required to inhabit a place that keeps its own counsel, far from the frantic pace of the urban grid.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lake Camelot (Park) — 2.5 mi, 117° SE
Community Park (Local Park) — 2.6 mi, 009° N
Leisure Oak Park (Local Park) — 4.2 mi, 071° E
Hazel and Bill Rutherford's Wildlife Prairie Park (Park) — 5.4 mi, 019° N
Racoon Lakes (Local Recreation) — 5.6 mi, 135° SE
Wildlife Prairie Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 6.3 mi, 033° NE
Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.4 mi, 180° S
Powerton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.4 mi, 152° SE
Madison Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 8.6 mi, 079° E
Pekin Lake (State Recreation Area) — 8.6 mi, 118° SE
Banner Marsh Fish and Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 8.9 mi, 200° S
Spring Lake (State Recreation Area) — 9.8 mi, 179° S
Tazewell County Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 127° SE
29th U.s. Colored Infantry Memorial (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 127° SE
Vanna Whitewall (Public Artwork) — 10.3 mi, 083° E
Fort Crevecoeur monument (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 094° E
Studios on Sheridan (Gallery) — 10.8 mi, 075° E
Arts Partners (Gallery) — 10.8 mi, 075° E
Farmington Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.9 mi, 284° W
Sundance (Attraction) — 11.2 mi, 126° SE
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria (Arts Centre) — 11.3 mi, 080° E
Giant Screen Theater (Cinema) — 11.4 mi, 079° E
Dome Planetarium (Museum) — 11.4 mi, 079° E
Dragon Stadium (Stadium) — 11.6 mi, 126° SE
Lorado Taft Museum (Museum) — 12.0 mi, 314° NW
Fondulac Drive Lookout 1 (Viewpoint) — 12.2 mi, 086° E
Peoria Public Schools Stadium (Stadium) — 12.4 mi, 065° NE
Peoria PlayHouse Children's Museum (Museum) — 12.6 mi, 072° E
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.3 mi, 202° S · 13k acres
Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.8 mi, 215° SW · 5,262 acres

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