Crescent Iowa Map

About Crescent, Iowa

Crescent is a locality in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 628. The population density is 250.7 people per km². Crescent is located at 41.3650°N, 95.8581°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Crescent is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51526.

Crescent occupies a unique threshold where the flat, fertile expanse of the Missouri River valley meets the abrupt, wind-sculpted rise of the Loess Hills. It lies 7.1 miles north of Council Bluffs, IA (from Council Bluffs, IA: bearing 1°T), and is situated 8.4 miles north-northeast of Omaha. Crescent Creek carves a persistent, narrow vein through the landscape, its banks providing a cool, sheltered corridor for the local flora that contrasts with the vast, sun-drenched fields of corn and soybeans stretching toward the horizon. The air here carries a dry, earthen clarity, especially during the long golden hour when the shadows lengthen across the bluffs, turning the deep green vegetation into a muted, velvet gray. To the east, the terrain softens into the gentle, rhythmic undulations of the Iowa plains, while the proximity of Hitchcock Nature Area preserves a fragment of the tallgrass prairie that once defined this entire region.

History in Crescent remains tied to the slow, deliberate work of the soil and the seasonal cycles of the agricultural economy that sustains its people. While the modern world moves with a different velocity, the residents maintain a quiet, literate civility, often finding recreation in the outdoors or traveling the short distance to the Boyer Chute Trails for a more rugged encounter with the terrain. Life here is punctuated by the stillness of the land, whether one is looking toward the distant waters of Hanthorn Lake or observing the seasonal migrations that pass through the shelter of the bluffs. This is a place where the heritage of early settlers persists in the sturdy, unadorned architecture and the steady, predictable pace of the working day, grounded firmly in the heavy, nutrient-rich earth that dictates the rhythm of life in Crescent.

About This Crescent Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Crescent, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.364996, -95.858067. 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 Crescent includes the ZIP code (51526), telephone area code (641), county seat of Pottawattamie County (Council Bluffs), and school district assignment (Council Bluffs 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.