Explore Warren, 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 Warren, 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 Warren.
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 | Warren |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Jo Daviess County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 42.496396 |
| Longitude | -89.989568 |
| Population | 1,323 |
| Density | 494.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61087 |
| Area Code | 847, 224 |
| County Seat | Galena |
| School District | Warren Community Unit School District 205 |
Warren sits firmly upon the high, undulating plateau of northwestern Illinois, where the horizon stretches in a wide, unhurried arc of fertile soil and seasonal change. It lies 23.3 miles northwest of Freeport, IL (from Freeport, IL: bearing 306°T), and is situated 10.2 miles south-southeast of Lafayette. The landscape is defined by the steady presence of Wolf Creek, which meanders through the fields a mere mile away, carving a modest path through the limestone-rich earth. Light here possesses a particular clarity, especially at dusk when the long shadows of the grain elevators stretch across the pavement, grounding the sky to the fields. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the terrain occasionally rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Pea Ridge, providing a sense of scale to a geography that favors broad, open vistas over jagged extremes. Residents often gather at the Warren Little League Park, where the crisp air of early evening carries the sound of aluminum bats and the distant, rhythmic hum of agricultural machinery from the surrounding acreage.
History in Warren remains tethered to the slow, deliberate pulse of the regional economy, which has long drawn its strength from the deep, dark loam of the Driftless Area. The local character is forged by generations who have navigated the shift from early lead mining to the prevailing patterns of modern agriculture and small-scale enterprise. While the Pine Ridge Nature Trail offers a quiet passage through the local timber five miles out, the social life of the locality remains concentrated in the brick-and-mortar storefronts that have weathered a century of winters. On humid summer afternoons, those seeking a change of pace often travel nine miles to the quiet banks of Lake Le-Aqua-Na, finding in its stillness a reflection of the town’s own enduring, unassuming nature. Warren maintains a quiet gravity, where the arrival of the harvest or the first frost dictates the rhythm of daily life far more than the frantic pace of the distant, urbanized world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Warren, Illinois. Coordinates: 42.496396, -89.989568. 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 Warren includes the ZIP code (61087), telephone area code (847, 224), county seat of Jo Daviess County (Galena), and school district assignment (Warren Community Unit School District 205).
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. |