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Charter Oak Iowa Map

Explore Charter Oak, 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 Charter Oak, Iowa

How to Use This Charter Oak, Iowa Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Charter Oak, 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 Charter Oak.

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	Charter Oak
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Crawford County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	42.068322
Longitude	-95.591669
Population	535
Density	402.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	51439
Area Code	563
County Seat	Denison
School District	Charter Oak-Ute Community School District

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About Charter Oak, Iowa

Charter Oak is a locality in Crawford County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 535. The population density is 402.7 people per km². Charter Oak is located at 42.0683°N, 95.5917°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Charter Oak is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51439.

Charter Oak emerges from the expansive, tilled horizon where the prairie yields to the persistent, rhythmic geometry of corn and soybean rows. It lies 37.2 miles west of Carroll, IA (from Carroll, IA: bearing 271°T), and is situated 12.6 miles west-northwest of Denison. Emigrant Creek winds its way through the periphery of this landscape, its path marked by a subtle depression in the earth that catches the low, amber light of late afternoon. To the west, the subtle rise of the Loess Hills frames the view, providing a gentle verticality to an otherwise level expanse. Three miles away, the Hanover Wildlife Area offers a quiet sanctuary of native grasses and shelter, a stark contrast to the disciplined, industrial precision of the surrounding agricultural fields. The air here carries a dry, sharp clarity, especially as the sun dips behind the distant, shadowed silhouette of Granger Hill, leaving the sky a bruised, deepening violet that settles over the plains.

Charter Oak retains the steady, unpretentious character of its mid-nineteenth-century roots, when settlers of German and Scandinavian descent first broke the tough prairie sod. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the soil, with grain elevators standing as the primary sentinels of a commerce driven by the harvest and the seasonal turn of the markets. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured pace, defined by a literate civility that values the quiet maintenance of community over the clamor of rapid change. While the nearest water, Grell Pond, waits twenty-one miles away in a different corner of the county, the people of Charter Oak find their own sense of place in the vast, open sky and the unbroken lines of the fields. It is a locality that demands little from the traveler, offering instead a profound, solitary stillness that reflects the enduring nature of the Midwestern interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hanover Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 118° SE
Nelson Park (Local Park) — 8.6 mi, 180° S
Thul Woodland (Local Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 350° N
Crawford County Farm (Local Park) — 10.0 mi, 136° SE
Donna Reed Center for Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 12.7 mi, 106° E
Northside Recreation Complex (Local Recreation) — 12.8 mi, 102° E
Dunham Barn (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 186° S
Dougal House (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 181° S
McClean Museum (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 181° S
The Booster Buck (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 181° S
Moorhead Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 16.7 mi, 233° SW
Turin Preserve Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 18.1 mi, 268° W
Loess Hill Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 18.5 mi, 282° W
Preparation Canyon State Park (State Park) — 19.6 mi, 233° SW
Moorehead Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 018° N
Pawnee Recreation Area Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 19.9 mi, 299° NW
Loess Hills State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 20.1 mi, 232° SW
Smithland Town Museum (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 302° NW
Sioux City - Smithland - Stagecoach Trail (Monument) — 21.3 mi, 302° NW
Inkpaduta Historical Marker (Monument) — 21.4 mi, 307° NW
Odebolt Historical Museum (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 045° NE
Washington Township One-Room Schoolhouse Museum (Museum) — 24.3 mi, 165° S
War Memorial (Monument) — 25.3 mi, 089° E
Monona County Historical Museum (Museum) — 26.1 mi, 266° W
Lewis and Clark State Park (State Park) — 29.1 mi, 265° W
State Theatre (Cinema) — 29.1 mi, 005° N
Tree Shelter (Public Artwork) — 29.3 mi, 267° W
Vet's Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 32.2 mi, 155° SE
Desoto National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 41.1 mi, 210° SW · 16k acres
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.4 mi, 203° SW · 7,936 acres

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