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Southern View Illinois Map

Explore Southern View, 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 Southern View, Illinois

How to Use This Southern View, Illinois Map

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

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	Southern View
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Adams County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.754617
Longitude	-89.651724
Population	1,596
Density	952.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	62305, 62703
Area Code	217
County Seat	Quincy
School District	Springfield School District 186

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About Southern View, Illinois

Southern View is a locality in Adams County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,596. The population density is 952.4 people per km². Southern View is located at 39.7546°N, 89.6517°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Southern View is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 62305, 62703.

Southern View stretches across the flat, fertile expanse of the Illinois prairie, a landscape defined by the persistent, rhythmic cutting of Curtis Creek as it meanders through the quiet terrain. It lies 2.2 miles south-southeast of Quincy, IL (from Quincy, IL: bearing 164°T), and is situated 13.7 miles north of Hannibal. The earth here is dark and heavy, a deep loam that holds the morning dew long after the sun has climbed, while the horizon remains wide and unobstructed, save for the distant, hazy suggestion of Long Ridge rising against the sky. Two miles away, the stillness of Big Lake provides a mirror for the shifting clouds, its waters settled into the low-lying basin near the shadowed depression of Ghost Hollow. In the amber light of late afternoon, the air takes on a crisp, static quality, grounding the open fields in a silence that feels both ancient and entirely present, punctuated only by the subtle rustle of stalks in the wind.

Southern View maintains the steady, unadorned pulse of a place shaped by the labor of the soil and the legacy of the regional rail lines that once anchored its growth. South Park serves as the central commons, a patch of managed green that offers a reprieve from the surrounding agricultural grid and the low-slung, sturdy architecture of the neighborhood. The local economy persists as a quiet extension of the broader corn and soybean belt, where the cycles of planting and harvest dictate the pace of the calendar. Life in Southern View often unfolds in the modest intervals between these seasons, marked by the steady passage of commuters toward the nearby urban centers and the local reliance on the infrastructure that keeps the surrounding farmland productive. Homan Falls, though six miles removed, draws the occasional traveler looking to witness the sudden, vertical interruption of the otherwise level plains, a singular geological gesture in a land defined by its vast, horizontal reach.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Southern View Community Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 179° S
Chatham Trail (State Recreation Area) — 0.9 mi, 248° W
Southwind Prk (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 184° S
Route 66 Mural (Public Artwork) — 1.5 mi, 007° N
Selvaggio Historic Arches (Attraction) — 1.6 mi, 189° S
Rotary Sundial (Attraction) — 1.6 mi, 188° S
Lauterbach Man Statue (Attraction) — 1.6 mi, 294° NW
Route 66 Drive In (Cinema) — 1.7 mi, 234° SW
Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center (Museum) — 1.8 mi, 015° N
Gallery 1624 (Gallery) — 2.1 mi, 344° N
AMC Showplace 8 (Cinema) — 2.4 mi, 074° E
Lincoln Memorial (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 135° SE
Legacy Theatre (Theatre) — 2.7 mi, 357° N
Elijah Iles House (Museum) — 2.8 mi, 006° N
Vachel Lindsay Home (Museum) — 2.9 mi, 002° N
1908 Race Riot Tour Marker - Edwards School (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 356° N
Lincoln Campaign Wagon (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 007° N
Malibu Jack's (Theme Park) — 3.0 mi, 287° W
Hoogland Center (Theatre) — 3.0 mi, 004° N
Capitol View (Viewpoint) — 3.0 mi, 358° N
Kidzeum of Health and Science (Museum) — 3.2 mi, 002° N
Adams Wildlife Sanctuary (Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 027° NE
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 4.7 mi, 315° NW
Carpenter Park Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.3 mi, 005° N
Lincolns New Salem State Park (State Park) — 17.3 mi, 327° NW
Edward R. Madigan State Park (State Park) — 27.5 mi, 029° NE
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.7 mi, 337° NW · 13k acres

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