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Spring Bay Illinois Map

Explore Spring Bay, 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 Spring Bay, Illinois

How to Use This Spring Bay, Illinois Map

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

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	Spring Bay
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Woodford County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	40.824481
Longitude	-89.522315
Population	474
Density	268.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	61611
Area Code	815
County Seat	Eureka
School District	County of Woodford School

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About Spring Bay, Illinois

Spring Bay is a locality in Woodford County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 474. The population density is 268.0 people per km². Spring Bay is located at 40.8245°N, 89.5223°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Spring Bay is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61611.

Spring Bay holds its place upon the flat, expansive reach of the Illinois River valley where the ground remains tethered to the slow, deliberate pulse of the Midwest. It lies 9.7 miles north-northeast of Peoria, IL (from Peoria, IL: bearing 21°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south-southwest of Chillicothe. The Blue Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil, offering a quiet, constant presence that dictates the movement of the local terrain before merging into the expansive, still waters of Upper Peoria Lake. Beyond the immediate banks, the landscape stretches toward the horizon in a vast mosaic of fertile earth, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Hoxie Ridge provides the only true verticality against an otherwise unbroken sky. In the cool hours of the morning, the light catches the moisture rising from the low-lying fields, turning the air a pale, translucent silver that seems to suspend the world in a momentary, breathless silence.

Spring Bay developed as a modest point of transit and industry, shaped by the practical needs of those who worked the surrounding plains and navigated the interior waterways. The Fon du Lac Park District provides a vital commons for the residents, serving as a social anchor that balances the heavy, systematic labor of the regional agricultural economy. Nearby, the presence of Strawberry Hollow and the protected timber of the Spring Branch State Conservation Area preserve a sense of the wilder, uncultivated Illinois that existed long before the current grid of roads took hold. Life in Spring Bay maintains a gravity of its own, defined by the seasonal rhythms of the harvest and the steady, quiet maintenance of homes built of brick and timber, standing firm against the wide, uncompromising winds that sweep across the prairie.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Fon du Lac Park District (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 294° NW
Village Public Park (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 174° S
Peoria Skeet and Trap Club (Local Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 180° S
Blalock Creek Site (Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 038° NE
Robert Rutherford Wildlife Sanctuary (Local Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 268° W
Mossville Soccer Complex (Local Recreation) — 1.9 mi, 298° NW
Woodford State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 026° NE
Illinois River State Fish and Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 2.7 mi, 205° SW
Partridge Creek Marsh (State Recreation Area) — 2.9 mi, 056° NE
Robinson Park (Local Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 271° W
Detweiller Woods Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 234° SW
Lacroix Rock (Monument) — 3.9 mi, 230° SW
Rock Island (State Recreation Area) — 5.9 mi, 261° W
Sweet Like Lemonade (Public Artwork) — 5.9 mi, 220° SW
Jubliee College State Park (State Park) — 6.2 mi, 237° SW
Town Theater (Cinema) — 6.7 mi, 017° N
Veterans Memorial Park (Monument) — 6.8 mi, 013° N
Santa Fe Train Mural (Monument) — 7.0 mi, 012° N
Peoria Public Schools Stadium (Stadium) — 7.1 mi, 209° SW
Peoria PlayHouse Children's Museum (Museum) — 8.0 mi, 199° S
AMC Classic Sunnyland 10 (Cinema) — 9.4 mi, 167° S
Arts Partners (Gallery) — 9.6 mi, 206° SW
Studios on Sheridan (Gallery) — 9.7 mi, 206° SW
Dome Planetarium (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 201° S
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria (Arts Centre) — 10.1 mi, 201° S
Eastlight Theatre (Theatre) — 10.8 mi, 190° S
Fondulac Drive Lookout 1 (Viewpoint) — 10.9 mi, 193° S
Ulrich Wildlife Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 12.2 mi, 172° S
Wildlife Prairie Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 12.9 mi, 241° SW
Princeville Heritage Museum (Museum) — 14.0 mi, 303° NW

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