Explore Brill, Wisconsin, 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 Brill, Wisconsin. 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 Wisconsin 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 Brill.
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 | Brill |
| State | Wisconsin (WI) |
| County | Barron County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 45.602733 |
| Longitude | -91.672112 |
| Population | 280 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 54868, 54818, 54808 |
| Area Code | 715 |
| County Seat | Barron |
Brill occupies a quiet reach of the north country where the land settles into a patchwork of timber and low-slung agricultural fields. It lies 28.6 miles west-southwest of Sawyer, WI (from Sawyer, WI: bearing 238°T), and is situated 7.4 miles north-northeast of Rice Lake. The Brill River cuts through the local topography with a steady, unhurried persistence, carving a path that defines the moisture and life of the surrounding soil. A mile to the north, Chain Lake holds the sky in its dark, still surface, reflecting the heavy clouds that often gather before a summer storm. The Tuscobia State Trail runs directly through Brill, providing a corridor for those who traverse the woods on foot or by machine, tracing the old rail lines that once carried the industry of the region. Here, the light at dusk has a way of lingering, turning the fields a deep, bruised violet as the heat of the day escapes into the cooling air.
History in Brill remains anchored to the slow, deliberate work of the land and the people who settled these woods to harvest the timber and cultivate the dairy-rich earth. The local economy persists in the rhythm of the seasons, where the work of the fields dictates the pace of the calendar and the quietude of the winter months. Life moves according to the demands of the soil and the maintenance of the homesteads, with little concern for the frantic noise of distant centers. Residents find a particular comfort in the permanence of the landscape, from the distant rise of Meteor Hill on the horizon to the shadowed depths of Gundys Canyon miles away. It is a place defined by the heavy weight of the woods and the simple, functional architecture of a life spent close to the grain of the earth.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Brill, Wisconsin. Coordinates: 45.602733, -91.672112. 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 Brill includes the ZIP code (54868, 54818, 54808), telephone area code (715), county seat of Barron County (Barron), and school district assignment.
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. |