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Weldon Illinois Map

Explore Weldon, 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 Weldon, Illinois

How to Use This Weldon, Illinois Map

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

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	Weldon
State	Illinois (IL)
County	De Witt County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	40.121147
Longitude	-88.74535
Population	369
Density	533.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	61882
Area Code	309
County Seat	Clinton
School District	DeLand-Weldon Community Unit School District 57

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About Weldon, Illinois

Weldon is a locality in De Witt County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 369. The population density is 533.6 people per km². Weldon is located at 40.1211°N, 88.7454°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Weldon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61882.

Weldon anchors itself upon the flat, expansive prairie where the horizon serves as the primary architect of the day. It lies 4.7 miles south-southeast of DeWitt, IL (from DeWitt, IL: bearing 153°T), and is situated 18.7 miles west-southwest of Mahomet. The land here is defined by a deep, black loam that drinks the rain and yields in equal measure, stretching out in a grid of corn and soybean fields that seem to hold the sun longer than the sky itself. Only the faint, distant silhouette of Yankee Ridge haunts the furthest edge of the western view, a reminder of elevations far removed from this level expanse. Three miles to the north, the waters of Lake Clinton gather in a quiet basin, while the passage of Friends Creek marks the slow, seasonal drainage of the surrounding fields. When the light turns amber in the late afternoon, the air takes on a crisp, heavy quality that settles over the grain elevators and the quiet streets, making the physical weight of the soil feel almost palpable beneath one's boots.

Weldon emerged from the nineteenth-century expansion of the iron rails, a byproduct of the relentless drive to connect the harvest to the hungry markets of the East. The economy remains tethered to the rhythmic cycle of the planting and the reaping, a life dictated by the stubborn integrity of the crop and the mechanical hum of agricultural machinery. Beyond the primary concerns of the field, the nearby Friends Creek Conservation Area provides a sanctuary of timber and brush where the native grasses reclaim the margins of the managed landscape. There is a particular, unadorned dignity in the way Weldon carries its history, visible in the weathered brick of its older structures and the way the residents maintain their properties with a quiet, persistent care. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a season, indifferent to the frantic velocity of distant metropolitan centers, preferring the steady, predictable pulse of a place that knows exactly what it produces and why it remains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Friends Creek Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 200° S
Weldon Springs State Park (State Recreation Area) — 8.6 mi, 269° W
Robert Allerton Park (State Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 149° SE
Girl with a Scarf (Public Artwork) — 9.5 mi, 147° SE
Lodge Park (Local Park) — 10.0 mi, 112° E
Piatt County Unit State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.0 mi, 143° SE
Valentine Park of Monticello (Local Conservation Area) — 10.8 mi, 118° SE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 11.6 mi, 127° SE
Civil War Memorial (Monument) — 11.8 mi, 284° W
Moraine View State Recreational Area (State Recreation Area) — 19.2 mi, 000° N
Champaign County Forest Preserve (Local Recreation) — 19.5 mi, 073° E
Wabash Station (Attraction) — 21.7 mi, 209° SW
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 22.0 mi, 205° SW
Decatur 9/11 Memorial (Monument) — 22.1 mi, 205° SW
Bosarth Memorial (Monument) — 22.2 mi, 335° NW
Hieronymus Mueller Museum (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 211° SW
Staley Museum (Museum) — 22.3 mi, 211° SW
Bald Eagle (Viewpoint) — 22.3 mi, 204° SW
Arrowsmith Battle Ground (Registered Battlefield) — 23.2 mi, 021° N
Parkland Theatre (Theatre) — 24.0 mi, 088° E
Staerkel Planetarium (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 088° E
Giertz Gallery (Gallery) — 24.1 mi, 088° E
Spitler Woods (State Park) — 24.3 mi, 195° S
Harristown Depot (Attraction) — 25.8 mi, 224° SW
Student Art Gallery (Gallery) — 26.5 mi, 340° N
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music (Museum) — 27.2 mi, 092° E
Krannert Art Museum (Museum) — 27.2 mi, 093° E
Historic US Route 66 Sign (Attraction) — 27.4 mi, 330° NW
Edward R. Madigan State Park (State Park) — 33.6 mi, 270° W
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 73.3 mi, 334° NW · 13k acres

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