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Walnut Illinois Map

Explore Walnut, 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 Walnut, Illinois

How to Use This Walnut, Illinois Map

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

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

Latitude	41.557085
Longitude	-89.591247
Population	1,311
Density	631.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	61755, 61376
Area Code	309, 815
County Seat	Pekin
School District	Bureau Valley Community Unit School District 340

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About Walnut, Illinois

Walnut is a locality in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,311. The population density is 631.9 people per km². Walnut is located at 41.5571°N, 89.5912°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Walnut is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 61755, 61376.

Walnut occupies a vast expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and wide, broken only by the silver-gray stalks of corn and the skeletal silhouettes of grain elevators. It lies 10.0 miles south-southeast of Morton, IL (from Morton, IL: bearing 153°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east-southeast of Tremont. Sargent Slough carves a quiet, meandering path through the earth nearby, feeding the damp, fertile soil that dictates the rhythm of the seasons. To the far horizon, the faint, hazy suggestion of Red Oak Ridge anchors the western view, a reminder of the tectonic shifts that shaped this interior landscape eons ago. On humid summer evenings, the light turns a bruised, heavy gold, casting long shadows that swallow the gravel roads and pull the cooling air down from the sky. Three miles distant, the waters of Brock Lake remain still, reflecting the expansive Midwestern vault of clouds that drift over the fields with a slow, deliberate purpose.

Agricultural cycles define the pulse of Walnut, where the economy remains tethered to the yield of the dark, loamy earth and the mechanical hum of harvest time. Since its founding, the settlement has served as a sturdy node in the regional network of depots and granaries, its architecture marked by the utilitarian permanence of brick and limestone. Residents find a quiet respite at Brock Park, where the trees offer a reprieve from the relentless sun that beats down upon the expansive, open plains. Life here moves with the cautious patience of the farmer watching the weather, grounded in a lineage of labor that respects the land’s capacity to sustain. The collective spirit of Walnut persists in the small, daily transactions of the main street, where the weight of history is felt not in monuments, but in the enduring continuity of a life lived close to the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Depot Street Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 134° SE
Centennial Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 182° S
Ross Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 0.6 mi, 294° NW
Green River Country Club (Local Recreation) — 1.4 mi, 090° E
Green River State Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.9 mi, 029° NE
Foley Sand Prairie State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.2 mi, 344° N
Old Indian Boundary Line (State Recreation Area) — 6.9 mi, 109° E
Hennepin Canal (State Recreation Area) — 9.0 mi, 286° W
Ronald Reagan birthplace historical marker (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 297° NW
Tampico Area Historical Society and Museum (Museum) — 11.3 mi, 297° NW
President Ronald Reagan as a boy (Public Artwork) — 11.3 mi, 297° NW
Civil War monument (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 296° NW
Bureau County Historical Museum (Museum) — 14.6 mi, 154° SE
Liberty Bell Monument (Monument) — 16.1 mi, 342° N
Sinnissippi_Mounds (Historic Ruins) — 17.0 mi, 348° N
Jerry Mathis Theater (Theatre) — 18.0 mi, 359° N
SVCC Art Gallery (Gallery) — 18.0 mi, 359° N
The Next Picture Show (Gallery) — 20.6 mi, 016° N
F-105D Thunderchief (Attraction) — 20.6 mi, 013° N
The Overlook (Viewpoint) — 23.6 mi, 013° N
Norrish Auditorium (Theatre) — 26.1 mi, 312° NW
Birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok (Attraction) — 27.0 mi, 103° E
AMC Classic Peru Mall 8 (Cinema) — 27.8 mi, 120° SE
Castle Rock State Park (State Park) — 28.7 mi, 019° N
Geneseo Water Tower Fish (Attraction) — 29.7 mi, 256° W
White Pines Forest Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 31.0 mi, 012° N
Starved Rock Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 33.0 mi, 120° SE
Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 33.5 mi, 121° SE
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.4 mi, 164° S · 13k acres
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 35.3 mi, 299° NW · 274k acres

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