Explore Wenonah, 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 Wenonah, 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 Wenonah.
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 | Wenonah |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Montgomery County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.32699 |
| Longitude | -89.288975 |
| Population | 32 |
| Density | 8.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 62075 |
| Area Code | 309 |
| County Seat | Hillsboro |
| School District | Nokomis Community Unit School District 22 |
Wenonah anchors itself firmly within the vast, flat expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun each evening. It lies 15.3 miles south of Taylorville, IL (from Taylorville, IL: bearing 179°T), and is situated 1.8 miles north of Nokomis. The terrain surrounding Wenonah consists of deep, fertile soil that has long dictated the patterns of the land, marked by the slow, deliberate meander of East Fork Shoal Creek just a mile away. When the air settles during the humid height of summer, the light turns a heavy, gilded amber that seems to cling to the stalks of corn and soybeans, illuminating the quiet persistence of the landscape. Beyond the immediate fields, the distant haze of Corley Ridge occasionally punctuates the far periphery, while the serene waters of Nokomis Sportsman Club Lake provide a singular, reflective stillness in the nearby countryside.
Wenonah carries the quiet weight of an agricultural heritage, where the rhythm of the seasons remains the primary clock for local industry and daily commerce. The residents maintain a steady, unadorned way of life, often gathering at Memorial Park to find respite among the trees that break the relentless reach of the open plains. History here is written in the simple, sturdy architecture of the older buildings and the enduring functionality of the roads that link the fields to the grain elevators. Far from the frantic pulse of major metropolitan centers, Wenonah preserves a sense of autonomy, favoring the deliberate pace of small-scale production and the deep, unspoken connections formed by generations of families who have worked the surrounding earth.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wenonah, Illinois. Coordinates: 39.32699, -89.288975. 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 Wenonah includes the ZIP code (62075), telephone area code (309), county seat of Montgomery County (Hillsboro), and school district assignment (Nokomis Community Unit School District 22).
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. |