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Spaulding Illinois Map

Explore Spaulding, 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 Spaulding, Illinois

How to Use This Spaulding, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.866192
Longitude	-89.545053
Population	801
Density	412.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	60120, 62561
Area Code	312, 773, 217
County Seat	Chicago
School District	Riverton Community Unit School District 14

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About Spaulding, Illinois

Spaulding is a locality in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 801. The population density is 412.4 people per km². Spaulding is located at 39.8662°N, 89.5451°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Spaulding is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 60120, 62561.

Spaulding stretches across a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of the Midwestern plains, where the horizon pulls the sky taut over fields that seem to breathe with the seasons. It lies 2.6 miles west-northwest of Bartlett, IL (from Bartlett, IL: bearing 282°T), and is situated 3.3 miles southeast of Elgin. The earth here is heavy and dark, holding the memory of tallgrass prairies that once bowed to the wind long before the grid of roads partitioned the land into precise, geometric parcels. A few miles to the west, the quiet passage of Poplar Creek carves a low, shaded line through the silt, while the dense, tangled canopy of Pratts Wayne Woods Forest Preserve offers a sanctuary of oak and hickory that stands in stark contrast to the open agricultural expanse. At the edge of the residential grid, the open space of Riley’s Run Park provides a flat, grassy expanse where the light at dusk settles in long, bruised purples, turning the atmosphere thick and still as the heat rises from the cooling soil.

Spaulding maintains a modest, utilitarian character, shaped by a history of rail lines and the slow commerce of the interior plains that favors steady labor over rapid transformation. While Heritage Lake lies six miles away as a destination for those seeking the stillness of deeper water, the economy of Spaulding remains tethered to the rhythm of the local transit corridors and the service needs of a region that values its distance from the frantic sprawl of the major metropolitan centers. Life moves with the deliberate gait of a place that understands its own boundaries, marked by the occasional distant hum of freight and the seasonal change of crops that define the local calendar. Blanchard Hill remains a faint, blue-gray suggestion on the far horizon, a reminder that the land is not entirely uniform, even if the primary character of Spaulding is found in the immense, unobstructed reach of the sky and the grounded, unpretentious nature of the people who reside beneath it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Spaulding Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 146° SE
City Hall Ball Parks (Local Recreation) — 0.7 mi, 129° SE
Veterans Memorial Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 180° S
Crucixion with Mourning Women on pedestal (Public Artwork) — 1.8 mi, 213° SW
Lincoln and the Talisman (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 267° W
Carpenter Park (Local Recreation) — 3.7 mi, 275° W
Carpenter Park Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 277° W
High Dive Show (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 246° SW
Adams Wildlife Sanctuary (Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 225° SW
Illinois State Fair Museum (Museum) — 5.5 mi, 249° W
Shea's Gas Station Museum (Museum) — 5.6 mi, 243° SW
Milk a Cow (Attraction) — 5.7 mi, 248° W
Margery Adams Wildlife Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 5.9 mi, 222° SW
Boxcar Museum (Museum) — 6.1 mi, 358° N
Roll of Honor Archway (Monument) — 6.1 mi, 359° N
Route 66 Dream Car Museum (Museum) — 6.1 mi, 355° N
Shell Gas Station (Attraction) — 6.2 mi, 358° N
Lincoln Belltower (Monument) — 6.5 mi, 244° SW
Air Combat Museum (Museum) — 6.6 mi, 255° W
Springfield Art Association (Arts Centre) — 6.8 mi, 235° SW
The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space (Gallery) — 7.0 mi, 230° SW
Hoogland Center (Theatre) — 7.2 mi, 229° SW
Capitol View (Viewpoint) — 7.4 mi, 231° SW
Legacy Theatre (Theatre) — 7.7 mi, 230° SW
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 8.7 mi, 275° W
Sangamon River State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.6 mi, 286° W
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 14.4 mi, 168° S
Lincolns New Salem State Park (State Park) — 16.4 mi, 295° NW
Edward R. Madigan State Park (State Park) — 18.1 mi, 025° NE
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 41.8 mi, 328° NW · 13k acres

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