Explore Time, 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 Time, 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 Time.
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 | Time |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Pike County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.561437 |
| Longitude | -90.724294 |
| Population | 26 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 62363 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| County Seat | Pittsfield |
Time emerges from the flat, horizon-bound expanse of the Illinois prairie as a quiet intersection of earth and sky. It lies 28.9 miles west-southwest of Jacksonville, IL (from Jacksonville, IL: bearing 246°T), and is situated 5.4 miles southeast of Pittsfield. The landscape surrounding Time is defined by the steady, unyielding geometry of agricultural fields, where the soil yields to the rhythmic cycle of corn and soybean cultivation. To the west, the subtle rise of Tick Ridge anchors the horizon, a distant serrated edge against the wide Midwestern light that bleaches the color from the grasses at high noon. Nearby, the water in Columbia Farm Pond remains still and opaque, reflecting the vast, shifting clouds that dictate the pace of the day, while the thin, wandering line of Bay Creek traces a path through the lowlands, carving a slow, deliberate signature into the heavy loam.
History in Time persists in the weathered brick of quiet storefronts and the sparse, sturdy architecture that favors utility over ornament. The local economy remains tethered to the deep, dark fiber of the ground, where the prosperity of the region is measured in the seasonal harvest and the steady mechanical hum of rural industry. While the bustle of larger grids feels worlds away, the residents of Time maintain a life governed by the changing seasons and the long, golden shadows that stretch across the plains toward the distant, silent reaches of Old Pearl Prairie. It is a place where the stillness is not an absence of movement, but a concentration of it, felt in the way the air cools as it moves over the open fields and the way the evening light lingers on the grain silos long after the sun has dipped below the edge of the world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Time, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.561437, -90.724294. 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 Time includes the ZIP code (62363), telephone area code (217), county seat of Pike County (Pittsfield), and school district assignment.
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. |