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Arthur Iowa Map

Explore Arthur, Iowa, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Arthur, Iowa

How to Use This Arthur, Iowa Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Arthur, Iowa. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Iowa or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Arthur.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Arthur
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Ida County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	42.334708
Longitude	-95.347497
Population	222
Density	583.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	51431
Area Code	563
County Seat	Ida Grove
School District	Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Community School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Odebolt Historical Museum (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 109° E
Moorehead Park (Local Park) — 6.3 mi, 282° W
Reiff Park and Wildlife Area (Local Park) — 12.0 mi, 054° NE
Newcom Dale Riggleman Natural Resource Area (Local Conservation Area) — 13.1 mi, 167° S
Sac County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 13.4 mi, 063° NE
Kiowa Marsh Waterfowl Production Area (State Resource Management Area) — 13.4 mi, 063° NE
Kiowa Marsh Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.6 mi, 063° NE
State Theatre (Cinema) — 14.6 mi, 317° NW
Burrow's Pond Waterfowl Production Area (State Resource Management Area) — 15.1 mi, 048° NE
Lake View Museum (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 097° E
Black Hawk Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.2 mi, 098° E
Black Hawk State Park (State Park) — 15.2 mi, 098° E
Bald Eagle Nest (Attraction) — 15.4 mi, 100° E
Chief Black Hawk Statue (Monument) — 15.7 mi, 097° E
Memorial Statue (Public Artwork) — 19.3 mi, 072° E
Donna Reed Center for Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 22.0 mi, 181° S
War Memorial (Monument) — 22.0 mi, 144° SE
J. Leslie Rollins Stadium (Stadium) — 22.2 mi, 019° N
Living Heritage Tree Museum (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 019° N
Log Cabin Museum (Museum) — 22.3 mi, 023° NE
Harker House (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 019° N
White Horse Access (State Recreation Area) — 22.7 mi, 097° E
Fighter jets (Attraction) — 24.3 mi, 293° NW
Firefighter Memorial Benches (Monument) — 25.3 mi, 324° NW
Carroll 5 Theater (Cinema) — 30.8 mi, 127° SE
Pawnee Recreation Area Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 31.2 mi, 254° W
Dunham Barn (Attraction) — 35.2 mi, 203° SW
McClean Museum (Attraction) — 35.6 mi, 201° S
Twin Lakes State Park (State Park) — 37.3 mi, 075° E
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.5 mi, 355° N · 12k acres

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