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Buffalo Center Iowa Map

Explore Buffalo Center, 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 Buffalo Center, Iowa

How to Use This Buffalo Center, Iowa Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Buffalo Center, 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 Buffalo Center.

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	Buffalo Center
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Winnebago County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	43.385791
Longitude	-93.946619
Population	857
Density	309.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50424
Area Code	515
County Seat	Forest City
School District	North Iowa Community School District

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About Buffalo Center, Iowa

Buffalo Center is a locality in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 857. The population density is 309.0 people per km². Buffalo Center is located at 43.3858°N, 93.9466°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Buffalo Center is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50424.

Buffalo Center anchors itself upon the vast, flat expanse of the north-central prairie, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun whole at the end of every day. It lies 40.8 miles west-northwest of Mason City, IA (from Mason City, IA: bearing 293°T), and is situated 17.7 miles west-northwest of Forest City. The land here is a rigorous geometry of tilled black soil, defined by the seasonal pulse of corn and soybean fields that ripple like dark water under a restless sky. A mere mile away, the Middle Branch Blue Earth River carves a quiet, unassuming path through the sediment, providing a subtle, rhythmic low point in a landscape otherwise defined by its infinite, unobstructed breadth. During the long, golden hours of late autumn, the light catches the dried corn stalks, turning the entire plain into a shimmering, brittle bronze that feels both ancient and perpetually renewed.

Buffalo Center carries the quiet, industrious legacy of settlers who arrived to break the heavy sod, leaving behind a culture of unshowy, literate civility that persists in the brick facades of the main street. The local economy remains tethered to the vitality of the surrounding earth, with the rhythm of the year dictated by the planting and the harvest, a cycle that hums beneath the surface of daily life. Those seeking a respite from the intensity of the fields often find their way to the Florence Recreation Area, five miles distant, or look toward the distant, hazy rise of Pilot Knob, which serves as the only significant interruption to the flat, fertile distance. Even when the winter frost hardens the ground, the people here maintain a steady, grounded persistence, reflecting a heritage of patience that is as deep and dark as the soil they cultivate.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Heritage Museum (Museum) — 0.1 mi, 250° W
Florence Recreation Area (Local Park) — 4.8 mi, 096° E
Quam Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 5.0 mi, 021° N
Luke Rossister Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 115° SE
Gruis Recreation Area (Local Park) — 6.5 mi, 178° S
Kossuth County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 6.5 mi, 232° SW
Good Neighbors Marsh Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 080° E
Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 9.3 mi, 244° SW · 5,668 acres
Good Neighbors Marsh Waterfowl Production Area (State Resource Management Area) — 9.6 mi, 065° NE
Winnebago County Waterfowl Production Area Of Ia (Resource Management Area) — 9.6 mi, 121° SE
Myre Slough Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.2 mi, 126° SE
MIA-POW Display (Monument) — 11.1 mi, 205° SW
World's Largest Bullhead (Monument) — 13.6 mi, 145° SE
Holtan Farm Museum (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 113° SE
Odvin Hagen Music Center (Arts Centre) — 17.5 mi, 119° SE
Mansion Museum (Museum) — 17.6 mi, 118° SE
In the Park (Public Artwork) — 18.1 mi, 270° W
Wakefield House Museum (Museum) — 19.0 mi, 337° NW
Etta C Ross Museum (Museum) — 19.0 mi, 337° NW
Lake Mills Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock (Monument) — 20.8 mi, 083° E
Rice Lake State Park (State Park) — 21.9 mi, 090° E
Lone Rock (Attraction) — 22.4 mi, 239° SW
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.1 mi, 196° S · 12k acres
Fairmont Opera House (Theatre) — 31.7 mi, 306° NW
Old Mill (Historic Ruins) — 32.3 mi, 009° N
Mall Cinema 7 Theatre (Cinema) — 36.0 mi, 055° NE
Five Island Lake Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 38.8 mi, 246° SW
Brewery (Historic Ruins) — 40.5 mi, 110° E
Wild Rose Casino and Resort (Attraction) — 40.5 mi, 243° SW
Winnebago Trail (Nature Reserve) — 40.6 mi, 111° E

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