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St. Elmo Illinois Map

Explore St. Elmo, 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 St. Elmo, Illinois

How to Use This St. Elmo, Illinois Map

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

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	St. Elmo
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Fayette County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.027266
Longitude	-88.848114
Population	1,254
Density	326.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62458
Area Code	217
County Seat	Vandalia
School District	St. Elmo Community Unit School District 202

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About St. Elmo, Illinois

St. Elmo is a locality in Fayette County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,254. The population density is 326.5 people per km². St. Elmo is located at 39.0273°N, 88.8481°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Elmo is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62458.

St. Elmo rises from the flat, expansive horizon of central Illinois, where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 17.6 miles west-southwest of Effingham, IL (from Effingham, IL: bearing 249°T), and is situated 5.9 miles west-southwest of Altamont. The landscape is defined by the steady, rhythmic geometry of agriculture, where soybean fields and corn rows stretch toward a line of trees marking the path of Brickyard Branch. To the east, the terrain remains largely level, though the faint, hazy suggestion of Corley Ridge hums at the very edge of the traveler’s perception. Within the quiet perimeter of Community Park, the air holds a stillness that deepens as the sun dips low, casting long, amber shadows across the grass. Only a mile away, the surface of the Saint Elmo Old City Reservoir offers a glass-like mirror to the clouds, its stillness broken only by the occasional ripple of a wandering breeze.

St. Elmo carries the weight of a history rooted in the extraction of subterranean wealth, having once served as a significant center for the oil industry that punctuated the regional economy with steel derricks and the steady rhythm of pump jacks. These industrial skeletons have largely faded, leaving behind the solid, brick-and-mortar character of a settlement that grew alongside the steady expansion of the railroad. The daily life of St. Elmo proceeds with a deliberate, unadorned pace, characterized by the hum of machinery and the quiet commerce of a place that values its own internal gravity. Whether tending to the land or managing the small-scale enterprises that keep the local pulse steady, the people here maintain a connection to the soil that feels as enduring as the prairie itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Community Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 270° W
Rock Cave State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 028° NE
Ballard Nature Center (Private Recreation) — 7.7 mi, 074° E
Wildcat Hollow State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.1 mi, 099° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 13.7 mi, 251° W
Fayette County Museum (Museum) — 13.9 mi, 251° W
Vandalia State House State Historic Site (Museum) — 14.0 mi, 251° W
Kaskaskia Dragon (Attraction) — 15.0 mi, 256° W
Village Mall Cinemas (Cinema) — 17.1 mi, 072° E
Effingham County Cultural Center and Museum (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 068° E
The Heart Theatre (Cinema) — 17.7 mi, 068° E
Stephen A. Forbest State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 19.3 mi, 170° S
Hidden Springs State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 19.8 mi, 021° N
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 21.1 mi, 170° S
Dieterich Community Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 25.1 mi, 085° E
Carlyle Lake (Recreation Area) — 25.4 mi, 229° SW
Clay County Historical Society (Museum) — 25.7 mi, 133° SE
Lake Shelbyville (Recreation Area) — 26.6 mi, 008° N
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 26.9 mi, 069° E
NYC-IC RR Signal Tower (Attraction) — 28.1 mi, 333° NW
CE&I Depot (Attraction) — 28.1 mi, 334° NW
Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 31.1 mi, 012° N
Ladue Auditorium (Theatre) — 31.5 mi, 253° W
The Jesus Statue (Public Artwork) — 31.5 mi, 253° W
Ganton Circle (Monument) — 31.5 mi, 253° W
Party Cove (Attraction) — 31.5 mi, 227° SW
Richard W. Bock Sculpture Museum (Museum) — 31.6 mi, 253° W
Greenville University Factory Theatre (Theatre) — 31.6 mi, 252° W
Fox Ridge State Park (State Park) — 44.2 mi, 055° NE
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 75.1 mi, 130° SE · 20k acres

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