Explore Summerfield, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Summerfield, 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 Summerfield.
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 | Summerfield |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Will County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.595526 |
| Longitude | -89.7496 |
| Population | 347 |
| Density | 270.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 60586, 62293 |
| Area Code | 708, 217 |
| County Seat | Joliet |
| School District | Lebanon Community Unit School District 9 |
Summerfield occupies a stretch of level earth where the horizon pulls away in every direction, marked by the steady, quiet expansion of the Midwestern plains. It lies 2.7 miles north-northwest of Shorewood, IL (from Shorewood, IL: bearing 348°T), and is situated 7.1 miles west-northwest of Joliet. The landscape surrounding Summerfield is defined by the open reach of the fields and the subtle, rhythmic shifts in the soil, which hold the long shadows of late afternoon with a peculiar, heavy clarity. A single mile to the west, the DuPage River traces a deliberate path through the low ground, its banks lined with the tangled, dark growth of native brush that offers a stark contrast to the manicured order of the surrounding acreage. Here, the sky holds a vastness that seems to press down upon the land, turning the evening air a deep, bruised violet before the stars settle into their cold, fixed positions.
Agriculture remains the quiet pulse of Summerfield, with the seasonal turn of the corn and soybean crops dictating the rhythm of the days and the flow of local commerce. The Commons serves as a central point of gravity for the residents, a space of managed greenery where the local character is distilled into the simple act of gathering under the wide, unobstructed heavens. History in Summerfield is not kept behind glass but is visible in the utilitarian brickwork of the older buildings and the way the roads follow the lines of long-established property boundaries. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own geography, far from the frantic energy of larger centers, anchored instead by the reliable, slow turning of the seasons and the enduring presence of the earth.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Summerfield, Illinois. Coordinates: 38.595526, -89.7496. 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 Summerfield includes the ZIP code (60586, 62293), telephone area code (708, 217), county seat of Will County (Joliet), and school district assignment (Lebanon Community Unit School District 9).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |