Arthur Iowa Map

About Arthur, Iowa

Arthur is a locality in Ida County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 222. The population density is 583.1 people per km². Arthur is located at 42.3347°N, 95.3475°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Arthur is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51431.

Arthur emerges from the vast, planar expanse of the Iowa prairie where the horizon line acts as a taut string pulled tight against the sky. It lies 22.3 miles south-southwest of Storm Lake, IA (from Storm Lake, IA: bearing 198°T), and is situated 30.8 miles northwest of Carroll. The landscape surrounding Arthur is defined by the persistent, rhythmic cutting of Odebolt Creek, which carves a modest path through the deep, loess-derived soil that has long nurtured the region’s agricultural soul. At dusk, the light here does not merely fade; it thickens, turning the endless rows of corn and soybeans into a singular, dark velvet that swallows the day’s heat. To the west, the subtle rise of the Loess Hills haunts the edge of vision, while the distant, silent mass of Battle Hill stands as a solitary sentinel twelve miles away, reminding the observer of the ancient, glacial patience of the earth beneath the plow.

History in Arthur is written in the steel of grain elevators and the sturdy, unadorned architecture of families who arrived with Scandinavian and German surnames to break the tallgrass sod. The local economy remains tethered to the slow, seasonal pulse of the harvest, a discipline that demands a quiet, literate civility from those who work the land. While the modern world moves with frantic noise, life in Arthur maintains a deliberate pace, punctuated by the occasional excursion to the tranquility of Moorehead Park or a walk along the Pleasant Valley Trail. Even the nearby presence of Arrowhead Lake, fifteen miles distant, serves as a reminder of the quiet, inland water tables that sustain this geography, far removed from the clamor of the coasts and anchored firmly in the steady, productive silence of the plains.

About This Arthur Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Arthur, Iowa. Coordinates: 42.334708, -95.347497. 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 Arthur includes the ZIP code (51431), telephone area code (563), county seat of Ida County (Ida Grove), and school district assignment (Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove 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.