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Granville Iowa Map

Explore Granville, 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 Granville, Iowa

How to Use This Granville, Iowa Map

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

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	Granville
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Sioux County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	42.98554
Longitude	-95.873626
Population	310
Density	411.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	51022
Area Code	563
County Seat	Orange City
School District	MOC-Floyd Valley Community School District

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About Granville, Iowa

Granville is a locality in Sioux County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 310. The population density is 411.3 people per km². Granville is located at 42.9855°N, 95.8736°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Granville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51022.

Granville holds its place upon the vast, open expanse of the Iowa prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered by the shadow of mountains. It lies 19.8 miles northeast of Le Mars, IA (from Le Mars, IA: bearing 48°T), and is situated 9.5 miles east of Orange City. Granville Creek traces a patient, winding path through the soil, carving a subtle depression into the landscape that supports the surrounding fields. The earth here is dark and heavy, yielding to the rhythm of seasonal planting and the slow, golden transformation of stalks under a relentless sun. At dusk, the light loses its sharp clarity, softening into a haze that flattens the distance and makes the sky appear an impossibly deep, bruised violet. A mile to the north, the Railroad Area provides a quiet buffer of greenery, a small respite from the relentless geometry of the tilled rows that define the region’s character.

Settlers arrived here to turn the tough sod into an enduring agricultural anchor, grounding the local economy in the steady, cyclical labor of soybean and corn production. The heritage of the people who built Granville remains visible in the sturdy, unadorned architecture and the reserved, civil manner in which the day unfolds. While the Puddle Jumper Trail offers a path for those seeking to traverse the broader landscape eight miles away, life in Granville stays tethered to the local grain elevators and the quiet intersections of a working community. Residents might look toward the distant western edge where the Loess Hills rise, but they remain committed to the immediate, fertile soil. On rare, still days, one can travel the fourteen miles to Leos Pond and find the water mirroring the same immense, quiet sky that defines every hour spent within the borders of Granville.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Railroad Area (Local Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 100° E
Floyd River Wildlife (Local Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 312° NW
Main Street Theatres Holland Plaza (Cinema) — 8.8 mi, 276° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 8.9 mi, 273° W
Mill Creek State Park (Local Park) — 10.1 mi, 090° E
Sheldon Prairie Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 004° N
The Gift (Public Artwork) — 16.3 mi, 294° NW
T.H. Steele Prairie State Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 16.4 mi, 116° SE
TePaske Theatre (Theatre) — 16.4 mi, 295° NW
Sioux Center Area Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 16.5 mi, 293° NW
Cinema 5 (Cinema) — 16.6 mi, 293° NW
O'Brien County Freedom Rock (Monument) — 17.7 mi, 038° NE
Kiddie Barn (Attraction) — 19.4 mi, 228° SW
Le Mars Community Theatre (Theatre) — 19.8 mi, 228° SW
Plymouth County Museum (Museum) — 20.2 mi, 228° SW
Waterman Prairie Complex (State Conservation Area) — 21.7 mi, 101° E
Tallman Museum (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 136° SE
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.6 mi, 091° E · 12k acres
Sanford Museum and Planetarium (Museum) — 23.1 mi, 135° SE
Lyon County Freedom Rock (Monument) — 25.7 mi, 346° N
McCallum Museum and Brunson Heritage House (Museum) — 29.6 mi, 013° N
Calliope Village (Attraction) — 31.1 mi, 273° W
Fighter jets (Attraction) — 35.8 mi, 173° S
Old Town (Attraction) — 35.8 mi, 196° S
Newton Hills (State Recreation Area) — 37.8 mi, 295° NW
Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 40.8 mi, 241° SW
Stone State Park (State Park) — 41.8 mi, 226° SW
Warren Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 46.7 mi, 242° SW
Ponca State Park (State Park) — 48.8 mi, 240° SW
Missouri National Recreational River (National Recreation Area) — 57.5 mi, 251° W · 870 acres

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