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Waggoner Illinois Map

Explore Waggoner, 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 Waggoner, Illinois

How to Use This Waggoner, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	39.377551
Longitude	-89.65315
Population	181
Density	286.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62572
Area Code	217
County Seat	Hillsboro
School District	Panhandle Community Unit School District 2

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About Waggoner, Illinois

Waggoner is a locality in Montgomery County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 181. The population density is 286.4 people per km². Waggoner is located at 39.3776°N, 89.6531°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Waggoner is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62572.

Waggoner occupies a flat expanse of the Illinois prairie where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a wide, unyielding sky. It lies 20.8 miles south of Chatham, IL (from Chatham, IL: bearing 172°T), and is situated 14.0 miles north of Litchfield. The landscape around Waggoner is defined by the steady, rhythmic geometry of agriculture, where deep soil supports endless rows of corn and soybeans that darken to deep emerald in the heat of midsummer. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of Horse Creek cut a narrow, winding path through the silt, providing a seasonal artery for the local fauna. On clear days, the distant silhouette of Sand Ridge looms faint and hazy on the far horizon, a reminder of the geologic shifts that once shaped this central plain. Light here does not play in shadows, but instead flattens across the fields at dusk, casting a heavy, golden glow that turns the stalks into rigid soldiers standing guard over the dark earth.

Economic life in Waggoner remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest, a tradition that has dictated the pace of the neighborhood since the first rail lines connected the village to the wider world. The local grain elevators stand as the primary sentinels of the skyline, their stark, utilitarian forms anchoring the community to its agrarian roots. Residents often find respite in the natural quiet of the Sangamon Valley Greenway, located eight miles away, where the managed wildness of the landscape offers a contrast to the structured rows of the surrounding farms. While the nearby Crown Mine Pond remains a solitary feature in the landscape four miles to the north, the daily life of the locality is defined more by the predictable turn of the seasons and the mechanical hum of machinery during the autumn gathering. This place carries the quiet weight of a region built on persistence, where the work of the hands remains the most reliable measure of the passage of time.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Shrine of Our Lady of the Highways (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 171° S
Sangamon Valley Greenway (State Recreation Area) — 8.1 mi, 289° W
Oak Leaf Country Club (Park) — 8.9 mi, 300° NW
Roberts Cemetery Savanna Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 9.0 mi, 162° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 10.1 mi, 325° NW
Weigh Station Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 10.3 mi, 177° S
Carlinville Fairground (Local Recreation) — 12.4 mi, 248° W
Renner Art Center (Arts Centre) — 13.2 mi, 242° SW
Macoupin County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 13.9 mi, 244° SW
Gillespie (Local Recreation) — 14.1 mi, 216° SW
Gillespie Prairie State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.1 mi, 188° S
H & B Bremer Wildlife Sanctuary (Conservation Area) — 15.7 mi, 150° SE
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 16.0 mi, 023° NE
Beaver Dam State Park (State Park) — 19.9 mi, 235° SW
Mother Jones Monument (Monument) — 21.0 mi, 192° S
Coffeen Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.8 mi, 145° SE
Taylorville Chautaugua Auditorium (Theatre) — 22.1 mi, 059° NE
Taylorville Cinema (Cinema) — 22.5 mi, 058° NE
Christian County Coal Mine Museum (Museum) — 22.5 mi, 058° NE
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 22.5 mi, 057° NE
Trutter Museum (Museum) — 23.7 mi, 005° N
Lincoln Memorial (Monument) — 24.3 mi, 004° N
Rotary Sundial (Attraction) — 24.5 mi, 360° N
Selvaggio Historic Arches (Attraction) — 24.5 mi, 360° N
Impermanent Column (Public Artwork) — 24.6 mi, 004° N
Route 66 Drive In (Cinema) — 25.1 mi, 357° N
The Muni (Theatre) — 25.5 mi, 009° N
Henry's Rabbit Ranch (Attraction) — 26.7 mi, 195° S
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Il (National Wildlife Refuge) — 42.4 mi, 268° W · 665 acres
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 46.0 mi, 216° SW · 32k acres

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