Explore Tremont, 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 Tremont, 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 Tremont.
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 | Tremont |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Tazewell County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.527539 |
| Longitude | -89.492598 |
| Population | 2,277 |
| Density | 785.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61568 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| County Seat | Pekin |
| School District | Tremont Community Unit School District 702 |
Tremont occupies a broad, level expanse of the Illinois prairie where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 6.1 miles south-southwest of Morton, IL (from Morton, IL: bearing 197°T), and is situated 8.3 miles east-southeast of Pekin. The horizon stretches in an unbroken, disciplined line, interrupted only by the seasonal transition of crops and the occasional copse of hardwood trees that mark the path of Dillon Creek. During the autumn, the light pulls long, thin shadows across the fields, turning the stubble to a pale, brittle gold that catches the chill of the inland air. Within the center of the grid, City Park offers a quiet intersection of manicured lawn and cooling shade, providing a pause in the steady, rhythmic pulse of the plains. Far to the west, the faint, hazy silhouette of Hoxie Ridge asserts itself against the sunset, a distant reminder of the geologic upheaval that created the continent’s spine, though here the land remains stubbornly, beautifully flat.
Tremont bears the quiet gravity of a place built upon the labor of the soil, its early growth tied to the fertile reach of the surrounding black earth. The economy remains anchored to the cycles of planting and harvest, a rhythm that dictates the pace of life and the movement of heavy machinery along the arterial roads. Residents maintain a collective memory of the nineteenth-century settlers who saw potential in the deep, rich loam, and that dedication to cultivation persists in the modern grain elevators that rise like monoliths above the skyline. The quietude is occasionally broken by the murmur of local commerce or the distant, rhythmic hum of equipment working the perimeter of Sutton Pond. There is a particular permanence in the brick facades of the older buildings, a solid, unyielding character that suggests Tremont is less concerned with the fleeting trends of the modern world than with the enduring strength of its own foundations.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tremont, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.527539, -89.492598. 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 Tremont includes the ZIP code (61568), telephone area code (815), county seat of Tazewell County (Pekin), and school district assignment (Tremont Community Unit School District 702).
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. |