Alvord Iowa Map

About Alvord, Iowa

Alvord is a locality in Lyon County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 206. The population density is 137.8 people per km². Alvord is located at 43.3422°N, 96.3011°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Alvord is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51230.

Alvord marks a quiet intersection of sky and soil where the horizon expands in every direction, measured only by the seasonal turn of corn and soybeans. It lies 38.5 miles north of Le Mars, IA (from Le Mars, IA: bearing 350°T), and is situated 9.5 miles north of Rock Valley. Mud Creek meanders through the landscape, its channel carving a subtle, persistent path that sustains the verdant vitality of the surrounding fields. The air here holds a crisp, clean weight, carrying the scent of tilled earth and the distant, dry rustle of prairie grass. While the distant Cactus Hills remain mere shadows against the deepening violet of a summer dusk, the immediate land is defined by a rigorous, flat geometry that stretches toward the edges of the world, offering a vast, open stage for the shifting light.

Alvord carries the steady, industrious pulse of a region built upon the quiet persistence of its settlers, where the labor of the farm dictates the cadence of the day. Economic life remains tethered to the bounty of the loess-rich soil, creating a landscape of functional beauty where grain elevators stand as the primary architecture of the skyline. Residents find their recreation in the nearby Doon Wildlife Area, a space that preserves the wilder, unplowed character of the plains, or perhaps travel the nine miles to seek the solitude of The Pahoja Recreation Trail. Life in Alvord favors a deliberate, unadorned civility, echoing the heritage of those who first broke this sod and established a durable, grounded way of being that remains largely unchanged by the clamor of the wider world.

About This Alvord Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alvord, Iowa. Coordinates: 43.342199, -96.30114. 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 Alvord includes the ZIP code (51230), telephone area code (563), county seat of Lyon County (Rock Rapids), and school district assignment (West Lyon Community School District).

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.