Scottville, Illinois Weather
Scottville, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Scottville, Macoupin County.
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About Scottville, Illinois
Scottville breathes the wide, flat air of southern Macoupin County, a place where the land stretches out like a rumpled quilt under a sky that can shift from bruised purple at dusk to an astonishing, almost liquid blue. It lies 33.1 miles south-west of Springfield, IL (from Springfield, IL: bearing 228°T), and is situated 18.7 miles south-south-east of Jacksonville. The terrain here is a gentle, yielding country, the sort that promises good earth for planting, with fields of corn and soybeans whispering secrets in the breeze. Drainage ditches, carved with a practical hand, snake through the landscape, carrying the slow, brown water toward larger rivers, and here and there, a lone oak or a stand of sycamores breaks the horizon, their branches reaching like skeletal fingers against the vast expanse. The houses of Scottville themselves are a humble collection, paint faded by sun and time, their porches worn smooth by generations of feet. The story of Scottville is written in the soil and the memory of industry. Once, this land hummed with the promise of coal, its seams whispering of a different kind of wealth that once fueled the engines of progress, though the deep shafts are long since quieted, leaving only echoes in the local lore and perhaps a faint, lingering scent in the air after a heavy rain. Now, the economy is a quieter affair, tied to the bounty of the fertile earth, the rhythm of the agricultural seasons dictating the pulse of life. Children here grow up with the smell of freshly turned soil and the distant drone of tractors, a simple, grounded existence that feels as natural as the slow arc of the sun across the prairie sky.
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| Location | Scottville, Macoupin County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 39.480325°N, 90.104834°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62674, 62683 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Scottville, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Scottville, Illinois, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Scottville includes coordinates 39.480325°N, 90.104834°W, situated in Macoupin County. ZIP code 62674, 62683. Telephone area code: 217. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
