Dunlap Iowa Map

About Dunlap, Iowa

Dunlap is a locality in Harrison County, Iowa, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,038. The population density is 347.3 people per km². Dunlap is located at 41.8544°N, 95.6006°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Dunlap is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51529.

Dunlap occupies a modest stretch of earth where the Boyer River carves a deliberate, winding path through the vast, fertile plains of the Iowa landscape. It lies 40.4 miles west-southwest of Carroll, IA (from Carroll, IA: bearing 249°T), and is situated 16.9 miles southwest of Denison. The horizon is defined by the heavy, dark loam of the fields, which extend in an endless geometry of corn and soybeans that seem to swallow the light of the setting sun. To the west, the land begins to heave upward into the craggy, wind-blown formations of the Loess Hills, providing a textured backdrop to the flat, industrious valley floor. The air here carries a distinct, dry fragrance of turned earth and ripening grain, a scent that marks the passage of seasons more reliably than any clock.

Dunlap maintains a quiet, industrious pace, its identity forged by generations of families who have worked the surrounding fields since the nineteenth-century arrival of the railway. The local economy remains anchored to the rhythms of the harvest, with the grain elevators standing as silent, gray sentinels above the modest storefronts and brick facades of the main thoroughfare. Residents often travel a few miles to Schaben Park for a reprieve in the open air, finding a sense of scale in the local timber and grass that contrasts with the intense, human-made order of the surrounding agriculture. Despite the isolation of the plains, there persists an unshowy, literate civility among the people, a quiet recognition of the land's demand for endurance and the simple beauty of a life lived in accordance with the turning of the seasons.

About This Dunlap Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dunlap, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.854433, -95.600559. 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 Dunlap includes the ZIP code (51529), telephone area code (641), county seat of Harrison County (Logan), and school district assignment (Boyer Valley 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.