Earlville Iowa Map

About Earlville, Iowa

Earlville is a locality in Delaware County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 716. The population density is 501.7 people per km². Earlville is located at 42.4817°N, 91.2724°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Earlville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 52041.

Earlville emerges from the broad, flat expanse of the Iowa prairie, a place defined by the quiet labor of the earth and the expansive sky that colors its horizon. It lies 31.0 miles west of Dubuque, IA (from Dubuque, IA: bearing 268°T), and is situated 9.3 miles east of Manchester. The landscape surrounding Earlville consists of meticulously tilled fields, where the dark, rich soil of the Midwest yields rows of corn and soybeans that stretch until they seem to blur into the distance. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of Plum Creek cut through the land, providing a gentle, rhythmic boundary that sustains the local ecology and feeds the verdant growth within Plum Creek Park. In the distance, the faint, hazy silhouette of Hefel Ridge rises like a soft bruise against the sunset, while the deeper timber of Backbone State Forest offers a dense, shaded contrast to the open fields, grounding the region in a steady, ancient stillness.

Agriculture serves as the lifeblood of Earlville, reflecting a heritage of German and Scandinavian settlers who cleared the wild grasses to build a life of durable, agrarian purpose. The economy remains tethered to the harvest, with the town’s architecture—sturdy brick storefronts and modest, well-kept homes—speaking to a culture of unshowy, literate civility. Life here moves in accordance with the seasonal cycles, a pace dictated by the planting and the reaping, where the silence of a winter morning is as profound as the industry of mid-summer. Beyond the immediate fields, the proximity of Hartwick Lake invites a rare, reflective pause for those who live among the endless furrows, marking a geography where the human footprint is small and the vast, productive stillness of the land remains the primary architect of the day.

About This Earlville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Earlville, Iowa. Coordinates: 42.481659, -91.272363. 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 Earlville includes the ZIP code (52041), telephone area code (712), county seat of Delaware County (Manchester), and school district assignment (Maquoketa 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.