Decatur Iowa Map

About Decatur, Iowa

Decatur is a locality in Decatur County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 175. Decatur is located at 40.7419°N, 93.8338°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 50067.

Decatur endures as a quiet sentinel amidst the vast, geometric expanse of Iowa’s tilled earth, defined by the persistent, narrow meanderings of Britton Branch. It lies 44.9 miles south-southwest of Indianola, IA (from Indianola, IA: bearing 199°T), and is situated 9.8 miles north-northeast of Lamoni. The landscape here is one of wide, open horizons where the sky exerts a heavy, luminous pressure upon the soybean and corn fields that stretch toward the horizon in muted shades of green and gold. Two miles from the town center, the canopy of Wirth Springer Woods offers a dense, deciduous sanctuary against the relentless clarity of the plains, its shadowed interior providing a cool contrast to the sun-drenched rows of crops that dictate the rhythm of the local season. At dusk, the light catches the fine, dusty particulate of the air, turning the fields into a flat, copper-colored sea that holds the warmth of the day long after the sun has slipped below the western edge of the land.

Decatur maintains a character forged by the steady, unshowy labor of agriculture, a heritage that lingers in the sturdy architecture of its buildings and the deliberate pace of its daily life. While the local economy remains tied to the cycles of planting and harvest, residents often find their recreation along the Little River Scenic Nature Trail, which weaves through the surrounding terrain four miles away. Those seeking the stillness of deeper waters occasionally venture the thirteen miles to Shields Lake, where the surface reflects the expansive Iowa sky with glass-like precision. Life in Decatur is marked by a literate, unassuming civility, where the weight of history is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring patterns of work and the quiet, persistent connection to the soil that sustains the inhabitants.

About This Decatur Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Decatur, Iowa. Coordinates: 40.741944, -93.833835. 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 Decatur includes the ZIP code (50067), telephone area code (515), county seat of Decatur County (Leon), and school district assignment (Central Decatur 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.