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Gilmore City Iowa Map

Explore Gilmore City, 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 Gilmore City, Iowa

How to Use This Gilmore City, Iowa Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Gilmore City, 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 Gilmore City.

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

Latitude	42.729418
Longitude	-94.447751
Population	487
Density	151.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50541
Area Code	319
County Seat	Pocahontas
School District	Gilmore City-Bradgate Community School District

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About Gilmore City, Iowa

Gilmore City is a locality in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 487. The population density is 151.8 people per km². Gilmore City is located at 42.7294°N, 94.4478°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gilmore City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50541.

Gilmore City emerges from the vast, flat expanse of the Iowa prairie where the horizon line remains unbroken by anything save for the occasional reach of a grain elevator or the thin, skeletal silhouettes of transmission lines. It lies 21.4 miles northwest of Fort Dodge, IA (from Fort Dodge, IA: bearing 319°T), and is situated 11.8 miles west of Humboldt. Fields of soybean and corn stretch in every direction, a grid of emerald and gold that shifts in color as the season wanes and the quality of light hardens into the pale, brittle clarity of a Midwestern autumn. A mile to the east, the quiet, persistent flow of Indian Creek snakes through the landscape, its banks offering a subtle depression in the otherwise level plain where shadows linger longer than they do upon the open acreage. To the west, the quietude is punctuated by the Moore Recreation Area, a place where the earth offers a small, deliberate pause in the endless tilling, and four miles distant, the still, reflective surface of Lizard Lake sits as a mirror for the wide, indifferent sky.

Gilmore City carries the weight of a history rooted deep in the extraction and cultivation of the land, its growth inextricably linked to the industry of the soil and the limestone deposits that once defined its early economic momentum. The air here holds the dry, honest scent of dust and harvested stalks, a reminder that the daily life of the populace is tethered to the cycles of the seasons and the demands of large-scale agriculture. There is a particular, unshowy civility in the way the streets are organized, a grid of quiet thoroughfares where the pace of the day is dictated not by the frantic urgency of a metropolis, but by the slow, methodical movement of heavy machinery and the seasonal rhythms of the harvest. Whether in the low, golden glow of a late-afternoon sun or the sharp, biting gray of a winter morning, Gilmore City persists as an expression of functional, persistent labor, a place where the inhabitants maintain a steady, literate connection to the vast, fertile geometry of their surroundings.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Moore Recreation Area (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 313° NW
Lizard Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 208° SW
Bradgate Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 041° NE
Willows Access (State Recreation Area) — 4.8 mi, 015° N
Three Rivers Trail (Local Park) — 5.3 mi, 003° N
Stearn's Woods (Local Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 003° N
Martin Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 360° N
Hams Access (State Recreation Area) — 8.2 mi, 357° N
Poduska Farm (Museum) — 8.9 mi, 292° W
Pocahontas Statue (Public Artwork) — 10.7 mi, 271° W
Fleege Farm (Museum) — 12.2 mi, 287° W
Humboldt County Historical Museum (Museum) — 13.0 mi, 092° E
West Bend Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 000° N
Twin Lakes State Park (State Park) — 18.9 mi, 208° SW
Hawkeye Community Theater (Theatre) — 20.2 mi, 138° SE
Blanden Memorial Art Museum (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 139° SE
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.5 mi, 042° NE · 12k acres
Eagle Grove War Memorial (Monument) — 28.1 mi, 099° E
Wild Rose Casino and Resort (Attraction) — 28.8 mi, 338° N
Robert Emmet Statue (Monument) — 28.8 mi, 336° NW
Dolliver Memorial State Park (State Park) — 29.0 mi, 141° SE
Boneyard Hollow (Attraction) — 29.6 mi, 140° SE
Copperas Beds (Attraction) — 30.1 mi, 142° SE
Five Island Lake Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 31.3 mi, 341° N
Lone Rock (Attraction) — 34.4 mi, 010° N
Lake City Capri Theater (Cinema) — 35.1 mi, 205° SW
Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 35.7 mi, 023° NE · 5,668 acres
J. Leslie Rollins Stadium (Stadium) — 39.2 mi, 261° W
MIA-POW Display (Monument) — 40.9 mi, 030° NE
Southpark 7 Theatres (Cinema) — 45.3 mi, 308° NW

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