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Stonington Illinois Map

Explore Stonington, 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 Stonington, Illinois

How to Use This Stonington, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.640043
Longitude	-89.192861
Population	837
Density	707.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62567
Area Code	217
County Seat	Taylorville
School District	Taylorville Community Unit School District 3

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About Stonington, Illinois

Stonington is a locality in Christian County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 837. The population density is 707.1 people per km². Stonington is located at 39.6400°N, 89.1929°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Stonington is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62567.

Stonington emerges from the flat, black-earth expanse of the Illinois prairie, defined by the slow, deliberate movement of Buckhart Creek as it carves a path through the fields. It lies 8.3 miles northeast of Taylorville, IL (from Taylorville, IL: bearing 41°T), and is situated 18.7 miles southwest of Decatur. The horizon here is a wide, unyielding line, broken only by the distant silhouette of Long Mound five miles to the west, which serves as a solitary anchor in the vast, open sky. Light in this latitude possesses a particular weight, turning the fields of corn and soybeans into a sea of muted greens and golds that deepen into a bruised violet as the sun descends. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the landscape holds the quiet stillness of the Griswold Conservation Area, where the land retains a sense of the wild, untamed grasses that once defined the entire interior of the continent.

Stonington remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, an economy built upon the fertility of the soil and the cycles of the seasons that dictate the pulse of daily life. The legacy of the region is etched into the grid of the streets and the modest, sturdy architecture that stands against the seasonal extremes of the Midwestern climate. Residents live in the shadow of this agrarian history, where the proximity to Myers Lake offers a quiet reprieve from the labor of the fields. There is a distinct, understated resilience in the way the local life organizes itself around the grain elevators and the quiet intersections, a place where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the slow turning of the earth and the shifting colors of the canopy along the banks of the creek.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Griswold Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 033° NE
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 223° SW
Christian County Coal Mine Museum (Museum) — 8.3 mi, 221° SW
Taylorville Cinema (Cinema) — 8.3 mi, 221° SW
Manners Park (Local Park) — 8.6 mi, 219° SW
Taylorville Chautaugua Auditorium (Theatre) — 8.8 mi, 218° SW
Jaynes Park (Local Park) — 9.1 mi, 226° SW
Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial (State Recreation Area) — 11.9 mi, 023° NE
Ivarene Wild Life Sanctuary (Conservation Area) — 12.6 mi, 258° W
Calamus Lake State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.6 mi, 000° N
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 13.4 mi, 266° W
Rock Springs Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 15.1 mi, 035° NE
Miller's Mill Overlook (Viewpoint) — 15.6 mi, 035° NE
Harristown Depot (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 021° N
Sand Creek Open Space Reservation (Local Recreation) — 15.9 mi, 053° NE
War Memorial (Monument) — 16.0 mi, 317° NW
G.A.R. Memorial (Monument) — 18.1 mi, 043° NE
CE&I Depot (Attraction) — 18.1 mi, 161° S
NYC-IC RR Signal Tower (Attraction) — 18.2 mi, 161° S
Roseland Theatre (Cinema) — 18.4 mi, 161° S
Staley Museum (Museum) — 18.7 mi, 041° NE
Hieronymus Mueller Museum (Museum) — 18.8 mi, 041° NE
Wabash Station (Attraction) — 19.4 mi, 042° NE
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 19.6 mi, 047° NE
Spitler Woods (State Park) — 19.8 mi, 061° NE
Trutter Museum (Museum) — 23.0 mi, 284° W
Impermanent Column (Public Artwork) — 23.6 mi, 286° W
Lake Shelbyville (Recreation Area) — 24.1 mi, 100° E
Margery Adams Wildlife Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 25.3 mi, 296° NW
Edward R. Madigan State Park (State Park) — 33.3 mi, 343° N

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