Yates City, Illinois Weather
Yates City, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Yates City, Knox County.
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About Yates City, Illinois
Yates City lies in the broad, rolling heart of Knox County, a place where the land itself seems to breathe with a quiet, agricultural exhalation. It lies 22.0 miles east-south-east of Galesburg, IL (from Galesburg, IL: bearing 122°T), and is situated 2.5 miles west of Elmwood. The terrain here is a study in gentle slopes and shallow valleys, shaped by the patient work of water and wind over countless seasons, giving way to wide, open fields that stretch like rumpled blankets under an immense sky. In the late afternoon, the sun, a molten disc low on the horizon, casts long, elongated shadows that stretch and distort the familiar contours of the landscape, imbuing the cultivated land with a fleeting, almost spiritual grandeur. The air, especially after a cleansing rain, carries the clean scent of turned earth and ripening corn, a perfume that speaks of a deep, enduring connection to the soil. The history of Yates City is intrinsically bound to the fertile prairie soil that has sustained it, a story of pioneers who saw potential in this seemingly endless expanse and carved a life from its bounty. The local economy, still largely tethered to agriculture, hums with the steady, predictable rhythm of planting and harvest, the silos standing as stoic sentinels against the horizon. While no grand monuments mark its past, the enduring character of Yates City is found in the weathered barns and the quiet dignity of its homes, each bearing the silent testament to generations who have worked and lived and dreamed upon this land. The distinctive character of Yates City is not in dramatic pronouncements but in the subtle, persistent hum of everyday life, a quiet fortitude that has seen it through the changing tides of time.
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| Location | Yates City, Knox County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.778648°N, 90.014837°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61572 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Yates City, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Yates City, 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 Yates City includes coordinates 40.778648°N, 90.014837°W, situated in Knox County. ZIP code 61572. Telephone area code: 815. 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.
