St. Augustine Illinois Map

About St. Augustine, Illinois

St. Augustine is a locality in Knox County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 119. The population density is 77.5 people per km². St. Augustine is located at 40.7184°N, 90.4110°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Augustine is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61474.

St. Augustine emerges from the vast, flat expanse of the Illinois prairie as a quiet congregation of structures defined by the relentless horizon of corn and soybean fields. It lies 16.0 miles south of Galesburg, IL (from Galesburg, IL: bearing 187°T), and is situated 6.0 miles south of Abingdon. The landscape here is defined by an insistent flatness, where the sky claims the majority of the visual field, shifting from a pale, bleached blue at midday to a bruised, heavy violet as the sun dips behind the distant silhouette of Haney Hill. Only a mile away, the sluggish, earthen path of Cedar Creek cuts through the silt, providing a subtle, meandering break in the monotony of the fields, while the quiet stillness of Paul Lake awaits two miles to the west, its surface often mirroring the drift of high, thin clouds. The air carries a scent of turned earth and drying husks, a dry, pervasive fragrance that anchors the senses to the rhythmic, seasonal cycle of the Midwest.

St. Augustine maintains the stoic character of a place built upon the labor of the soil, its history inextricably tied to the expansion of rail and the subsequent cultivation of the surrounding acreage. The economy remains tethered to the productivity of the land, with the architecture reflecting a utilitarian, no-nonsense aesthetic of brick and timber that has weathered through decades of harsh, biting winters and humid, stifling summers. A few miles to the north, the protected grounds of Avondale Lake provide a rare, managed refuge from the geometric precision of the surrounding farms, offering a sanctuary of wilder growth amidst the orderly rows of crops. Life in St. Augustine moves with a measured, deliberate pace, dictated more by the grain elevator’s intake and the turning of the seasons than by the frantic pulse of the distant, grid-locked cities to the northeast.

About This St. Augustine Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Augustine, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.718373, -90.410962. 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 St. Augustine includes the ZIP code (61474), telephone area code (815), county seat of Knox County (Galesburg), and school district assignment (Abingdon-Avon Community Unit School District 276).

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.