West Brooklyn Illinois Map
Explore West Brooklyn, 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 West Brooklyn, Illinois
How to Use This West Brooklyn, Illinois Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for West Brooklyn, 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 West Brooklyn.
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 | West Brooklyn |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Lee County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.692809 |
| Longitude | -89.147035 |
| Population | 131 |
| Density | 595.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 61378 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| County Seat | Dixon |
| School District | Mendota Community Consolidated School District 289 |
About West Brooklyn, Illinois
West Brooklyn is a locality in Lee County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 131. The population density is 595.1 people per km². West Brooklyn is located at 41.6928°N, 89.1470°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. West Brooklyn is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 61378.West Brooklyn remains a quiet expanse of flat, productive earth where the horizon pulls the sky down to meet the stalks of corn and soybeans. It lies 19.9 miles east-southeast of Dixon, IL (from Dixon, IL: bearing 120°T), and is situated 9.5 miles east of Amboy. The landscape here is defined by a deep, glacial patience, marked by the steady movement of Big Bureau Creek four miles away and the reflective, still surface of Leake Lake to the north. To the east, the faint, hazy silhouette of High Ridge rises against the light, breaking the relentless linearity of the plains. During the long, golden hours of late afternoon, the air takes on a heavy, sweet scent of soil and drying husks, illuminating the subtle variations in the terrain that separate the fields from the occasional stands of oak.
West Brooklyn carries the weight of a regional agricultural heritage, where the pace of life is dictated by the turning of the season and the cycles of the grain elevator. The economy leans heavily on the labor of the land, though the presence of the nearby Green Wing Environmental Laboratory provides a grounding influence, reminding the residents of the ecological complexity hidden within the surrounding prairie remnants. Life moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, far removed from the frantic pulse of the distant city, yet connected by the iron-straight roads that stitch the local grid together. It is a place of modest permanence, where the identity of West Brooklyn is found in the simple, repetitive labor of the harvest and the persistent, quiet endurance of the Midwestern climate.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Green Wing Environmental Laboratory (Park) — 6.0 mi, 273° W
- Old Chicago Trail Marker (Monument) — 8.3 mi, 091° E
- Homes of Chief Waubonsie and Madeline Ogee (Monument) — 8.7 mi, 093° E
- Lake Mendota Park & Sports Complex (Local Park) — 8.9 mi, 178° S
- Mendota Golf Club (Park) — 10.1 mi, 186° S
- Maytown State Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.6 mi, 249° W
- Earlville History Museum (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 121° SE
- Shabbona Lake State Park (State Recreation Area) — 14.2 mi, 076° E
- Birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok (Attraction) — 16.0 mi, 168° S
- Green River State Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.4 mi, 259° W
- Cherry Mine Disaster (Monument) — 18.5 mi, 191° S
- Wings of Peace and Freedom (Public Artwork) — 20.1 mi, 301° NW
- The Next Picture Show (Gallery) — 20.2 mi, 301° NW
- Castle Rock State Park (State Park) — 21.1 mi, 325° NW
- Council Ring (Theatre) — 21.2 mi, 328° NW
- F-105D Thunderchief (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 300° NW
- The Overlook (Viewpoint) — 22.2 mi, 308° NW
- AMC Classic Peru Mall 8 (Cinema) — 23.4 mi, 177° S
- Jerry Mathis Theater (Theatre) — 24.7 mi, 291° W
- SVCC Art Gallery (Gallery) — 24.7 mi, 291° W
- Jack Olson Gallery (Gallery) — 26.0 mi, 050° NE
- White Pines Forest Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 26.4 mi, 322° NW
- Starved Rock Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 26.5 mi, 168° S
- Plum Island Site (Historic Ruins) — 26.7 mi, 163° S
- Matthiessen State Park (State Park) — 27.3 mi, 167° S
- Sinnissippi_Mounds (Historic Ruins) — 27.4 mi, 285° W
- Hennepin Canal (State Recreation Area) — 29.7 mi, 201° S
- Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 43.0 mi, 195° S · 13k acres
- Midewin Other (National Forest) — 52.0 mi, 114° SE · 18k acres
- Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife And Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 52.1 mi, 289° W · 274k acres
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About This West Brooklyn Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of West Brooklyn, Illinois. Coordinates: 41.692809, -89.147035. 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 West Brooklyn includes the ZIP code (61378), telephone area code (815), county seat of Lee County (Dixon), and school district assignment (Mendota Community Consolidated School District 289).
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. |
