Smithville Illinois Map

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.

About This Smithville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Smithville, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.658954, -89.803114. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Smithville includes the ZIP code (62828, 61536), telephone area code (618, 815), county seat of Wayne County (Fairfield), and school district assignment (Farmington Central Community Unit School District 265).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.