Carbon Iowa Map

About Carbon, Iowa

Carbon is a locality in Adams County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 36. The population density is 18.5 people per km². Carbon is located at 41.0498°N, 94.8246°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Carbon is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 50839, 52537, 50841.

Carbon emerges from the vast, dark loam of the prairie, defined by the quiet persistence of Bull Creek as it carves a slow path through the valley floor. It lies 55.9 miles east-southeast of Council Bluffs, IA (from Council Bluffs, IA: bearing 105°T), and is situated 24.1 miles west of Creston. The landscape surrounding Carbon consists of expansive, tilled fields that stretch toward the horizon, where the light of late afternoon catches the stubble of harvested crops, turning the earth into a mosaic of deep umber and bronze. Only a few miles away, the quiet waters of Lake Icaria reflect the expansive Iowa sky, offering a stillness that seems to permeate the very air of the surrounding plains. The terrain remains largely open, broken only by the occasional stand of hardwood trees that follow the winding course of the water, their leaves shivering in the constant, restless wind that sweeps across the interior.

Carbon retains the quiet character of its founding, when the promise of coal and the fertility of the soil drew settlers to these plains to organize a life built upon the rhythms of the seasons. The local economy remains anchored to the productivity of the land, with the steady labor of agriculture dictating the pace of the calendar. Residents often traverse the short distance to Lake Icaria State Park for a respite from the exertion of the fields, finding a sense of scale in the contrast between the managed rows of corn and the unhurried nature of the water. Life in Carbon unfolds with a measured, literate civility, where the weight of history is felt not in monuments, but in the enduring, patient stewardship of the ground that has sustained its people for generations.

About This Carbon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Carbon, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.04975, -94.824575. 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 Carbon includes the ZIP code (50839, 52537, 50841), telephone area code (712, 319), county seat of Adams County (Corning), and school district assignment (Corning 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.