Cumberland Iowa Map

About Cumberland, Iowa

Cumberland is a locality in Cass County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 251. The population density is 156.3 people per km². Cumberland is located at 41.2742°N, 94.8703°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cumberland is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50843.

Cumberland rises from the flat, industrious plains of western Iowa, defined by the quiet persistence of the Hoyts Branch as it cuts a modest, winding path through the dark, fertile soil. It lies 51.5 miles east of Council Bluffs, IA (from Council Bluffs, IA: bearing 89°T), and is situated 11.6 miles southeast of Atlantic. The landscape stretches out in a vast, rhythmic expanse of soybean and corn rows, where the horizon remains wide and unencumbered, save for the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator or a cluster of wind-swept oaks. During the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, honeyed gold, catching the dust kicked up from gravel roads and illuminating the sheer, patient scale of the tilled earth. Only five miles away, the West Nodaway Wildlife Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and quiet thickets, providing a necessary counterpoint to the orderly, geometric precision of the surrounding fields.

Cumberland maintains a steady, deliberate pace of life, rooted in a history of agrarian labor and the quiet resilience of the families who first broke this prairie sod. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest, a tradition that demands a deep, pragmatic literacy in the ways of weather and soil. While the larger world feels distant, the proximity of Lake Anita, located eleven miles away, provides a solitary expanse of water that anchors the regional geography and offers a rare, reflective break in the endless grid of farmland. Life in Cumberland is marked by an unshowy civility, a place where the passage of the seasons is measured not by grand events, but by the slow, heavy turning of the earth and the reliable, seasonal return of the work that defines the spirit of the plains.

About This Cumberland Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cumberland, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.274155, -94.870261. 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 Cumberland includes the ZIP code (50843), telephone area code (319), county seat of Cass County (Atlantic), and school district assignment (CAM 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.