DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in Illinois, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Illinois. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map that shows the waterway and the low ground, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Illinois
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Row crop ground trades on tile and field edges.
Most Illinois land that changes hands is farm ground, and the questions are productivity, drainage and how the field is actually laid out. Southern Illinois adds timber, strip mine ground and hunting tracts, where slope and water matter more than a soil rating.
The outlined top down shows the field against the road and the neighbor, and the contour map shows the low ground and the waterway, which is where the tile problems live.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel, everything below. Bluff country above the Mississippi in Randolph County. Hardwood timber with open clearings cut through it, 224 feet of relief across 126 acres, and a third of a mile of road on the north line.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Illinois delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Illinois land actually trades.
These are among the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Illinois county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order an Illinois parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Illinois county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Flat row crop ground across the central part of the state, timber and hunting tracts in the south, river bottoms, and small acreages near towns.
- Typical uses
- Farmland sales, hunting and recreation, rural homesites, and tracts near towns.
- Reads well from above
- Tile and drainage patterns on cropland, field boundaries and waterways, timber against tillable ground, and the creek bottoms and hills of the south.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the parcel index number (PIN) on the tax record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting an Illinois tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Illinois ground.
Which Illinois counties can you do?
Any Illinois county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
What kinds of Illinois land are packs ordered for?
Flat row crop ground across the central part of the state, timber and hunting tracts in the south, river bottoms, and small acreages near towns. Typical uses there: farmland sales, hunting and recreation, rural homesites, and tracts near towns.
Does it help on plain row crop ground?
Yes, in a specific way. It shows the field as a buyer will farm it: the boundary against the road, the waterway, the wet corner, the timber edge and how it splits from the neighbor. Soil ratings come from the parcel sheet, not the photograph.
What about southern Illinois timber and hunting tracts?
Same pack, and the contour map does more of the work. Ridge, hollow, strip mine relief and food plot locations read clearly, and the orbit video sells a hunting tract better than a plat map does.
What is a PIN in Illinois, and is that what I enter?
In Illinois, the number to look for is the parcel index number (PIN) on the tax record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What can a buyer see from above on Illinois farm and timber ground?
Tile and drainage patterns on cropland, field boundaries and waterways, timber against tillable ground, and the creek bottoms and hills of the south. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Illinois parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.