Woodland Illinois Map

About Woodland, Illinois

Woodland is a locality in Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 248. The population density is 195.4 people per km². Woodland is located at 40.7151°N, 87.7311°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Woodland is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 60954, 60974.

Woodland emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Illinois prairie like a quiet gathering of grain silos and low-slung rooftops against a sky that seems to possess more weight than the earth itself. It lies 28.8 miles south-southeast of Kankakee, IL (from Kankakee, IL: bearing 166°T), and is situated 4.3 miles south of Watseka. Sugar Creek carves a deliberate, winding path past the edge of the grid, its banks lined with dense thickets that catch the amber light of late afternoon. To the west, the land pulls away into the subtle depression of Eastburn Hollow, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Mount Langham marks the far edge of the traveler’s view. The air here holds a clean, sharp stillness, smelling faintly of turned soil and the cooling metal of machinery, a landscape defined by the relentless, geometric precision of the fields that stretch toward the horizon in every direction.

History in Woodland is written in the steady, repetitive cycles of the harvest, where the local economy remains anchored to the fertile, dark loam that has sustained the region for generations. Life moves at the pace of the seasons, dictated by the rhythm of planting and the heavy, golden labor of autumn, while the social pulse of the neighborhood finds its expression in the quiet expanses of Legion Park. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, the waters of Kam Lake offer a rare, reflective stillness that contrasts with the industrious hum of the grain elevators rising above the trees. Woodland maintains a character shaped by this isolation, a place where the collective memory of the settlers lingers in the sturdy architecture and the deep, uncomplicated silence that settles over the streets long before the sun disappears.

About This Woodland Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Woodland, Illinois. Coordinates: 40.71511, -87.73111. 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 Woodland includes the ZIP code (60954, 60974), telephone area code (630, 331), county seat of Iroquois County (Watseka), and school district assignment (Iroquois County Community Unit School District 9).

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.