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Elkhart Iowa Map

Explore Elkhart, Iowa, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Elkhart, Iowa

How to Use This Elkhart, Iowa Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Elkhart, Iowa. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Iowa or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Elkhart.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Elkhart
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Polk County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.791655
Longitude	-93.522159
Population	882
Density	191.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50073
Area Code	515
County Seat	Des Moines
School District	North Polk Community School District

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About Elkhart, Iowa

Elkhart is a locality in Polk County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 882. The population density is 191.0 people per km². Elkhart is located at 41.7917°N, 93.5222°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Elkhart is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50073.

Elkhart emerges from the flat, expansive horizon as a collection of rooftops and silos anchored firmly within the heavy, dark soil of the central plains. It lies 6.1 miles northeast of Ankeny, IA (from Ankeny, IA: bearing 45°T), and is situated 7.0 miles north-northwest of Bondurant. The surrounding landscape functions as a vast, rhythmic grid of corn and soybeans, where the sky claims more territory than the earth, pulling the gaze upward toward an endless, shifting vault of gray and bruised-gold clouds. At the center of this quiet expanse, Elkhart Memorial Park offers a modest patch of green where the wind carries the dry, rattling whisper of cornstalks from the neighboring fields. While the horizon stretches toward the distant, faint outlines of the Loess Hills, the immediate terrain remains defined by the methodical, unshowy labor of the plow and the slow migration of seasons across the open prairie.

Generations of families have organized their lives around the cycles of this land, finding a steady, literate civility in the quietude that defines the local economy. The legacy of Scandinavian and German settlers remains visible in the sturdy, upright character of the architecture, which stands unbothered by the passage of time or the nearby presence of Ditch Number 11. Life moves with the deliberate pace of a long-settled rural interior, occasionally punctuated by the proximity of Saylorville Lake, where the water mirrors the same expansive, cloud-filled sky that watches over the town. Residents of Elkhart understand that their existence is tied to the fertility of the loam, a persistence of place that values the weight of a harvest and the simple, grounding grace of a horizon that never ends.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Elkhart Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 180° S
Elkhart City Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 282° W
Paul Errington Marsh Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 167° S
Polk County Waterfowl Production Area Of Ia (Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 174° S
Polk County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 174° S
Paul Errington Marsh Waterfowl Production Area (State Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 174° S
CBG Freeland (INHF) (Local Recreation) — 3.7 mi, 090° E
CBG Mendenhall (Local Recreation) — 3.8 mi, 098° E
Chichaqua Bottoms Wildlife Management Area (Local Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 094° E
Shelly Dunham Memorial (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 213° SW
Ankeny Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 226° SW
Eric Jacobs Memorial (Monument) — 6.0 mi, 234° SW
High Trestle Trail (State Recreation Area) — 6.1 mi, 226° SW
Heart of Iowa Nature Trail (State Recreation Area) — 6.7 mi, 318° NW
Wooden carved bear (Public Artwork) — 7.5 mi, 218° SW
Giant Sky Wheel (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 173° S
Speedway Racers (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 173° S
The Clipper (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 173° S
G-Force (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 173° S
American Puppet Theater (Theatre) — 9.7 mi, 174° S
Sheriff Sam's Saloon Show (Theatre) — 9.8 mi, 174° S
Kids Create (Arts Centre) — 10.0 mi, 262° W
Big Creek Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 262° W
County School (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 186° S
Richard L. Easter Museum Complex (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 185° S
Halls of Law and Flame (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 187° S
Cattle Tie-Outs (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 13.9 mi, 185° S
SEP Stadium (Stadium) — 14.0 mi, 165° S
Flix Brewhouse (Cinema) — 14.4 mi, 220° SW
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.0 mi, 140° SE · 12k acres

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