Explore Buck Grove, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Buck Grove, 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 Buck Grove.
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 | Buck Grove |
| State | Iowa (IA) |
| County | Grundy County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.917703 |
| Longitude | -95.395193 |
| Population | 34 |
| Density | 35.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 50604, 51528 |
| Area Code | 319, 641 |
| County Seat | Grundy Center |
| School District | Denison Community School District |
Buck Grove occupies a quiet expanse of the Iowa plains where the horizon stretches thin and wide under an immense, pale sky. It lies 20.6 miles west of Cedar Falls, IA (from Cedar Falls, IA: bearing 268°T), and is situated 11.3 miles north-northwest of Grundy Center. South Beaver Creek meanders through the landscape, its current carving a subtle, deliberate path through the earth that serves as the region’s primary artery. The terrain is defined by the persistent geometry of agriculture, where orderly rows of corn and soybeans mirror the grid of the section roads, creating a tapestry of deep greens and drying gold that shifts with the seasons. Though the distant silhouette of Mormon Ridge remains a faint memory on the far western horizon, the immediate vicinity feels intimate and grounded, held close by the weight of the soil and the slow, rhythmic rotation of the sun across the stalks.
Buck Grove maintains a character forged by the quiet industry of the prairie, where the local economy remains tethered to the vitality of the land and the endurance of those who cultivate it. History here is marked not by grand monuments, but by the steady persistence of homesteads and the shared labor that has sustained the population for generations. Travelers occasionally pause five miles away at Beaver Roadside Park to take in the stillness, while those looking for the wider waters of Upper Pine Lake find them fourteen miles distant, a brief excursion from the daily pace. Life in Buck Grove moves with an unpretentious civility, defined by the scent of freshly turned earth in the spring and the long, amber light that settles over the fields as the day draws to a close.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Buck Grove, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.917703, -95.395193. 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 Buck Grove includes the ZIP code (50604, 51528), telephone area code (319, 641), county seat of Grundy County (Grundy Center), and school district assignment (Denison Community School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |