Griswold Iowa Map

About Griswold, Iowa

Griswold is a locality in Cass County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 994. The population density is 630.2 people per km². Griswold is located at 41.2350°N, 95.1375°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Griswold is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51535.

Griswold commands a quiet authority over the expansive, fertile plains of southwestern Iowa, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vault of immense, shifting sky. It lies 37.6 miles east of Council Bluffs, IA (from Council Bluffs, IA: bearing 93°T), and is situated 13.3 miles south-southwest of Atlantic. Baughmans Creek traces a wandering, silver-threaded path through the deep loess soil near the town’s edge, its waters moving with a deliberate, sluggish grace that mirrors the steady pulse of the surrounding landscape. In the autumn, the light turns a bruised, honeyed gold, catching the dry stalks of corn and the dark, upturned earth of fields that seem to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has dipped below the western rim. Only five miles away, the quiet basin of Cold Springs offers a different texture to the terrain, a place where the air cools and settles in the reeds as the evening settles over the prairie.

Griswold emerged from the ambition of the nineteenth-century expansion, grounded in the sturdy, pragmatic values of settlers who recognized the promise in the deep, black loam. Agriculture remains the primary engine of life here, with the steady rhythm of planting and harvest dictating the pace of the seasons for every resident. The nearby Cocklin Fish Farm stands as a distinctive local landmark, a reminder of the quiet, specialized stewardship of the land that persists despite the broader shifts in the modern economy. Life in Griswold moves with an unshowy, literate civility, where the heritage of the early pioneers lingers in the architecture and the straightforward honesty of the people who continue to work the soil. Even as machinery and technology alter the methodology of the farm, the essential character of the place remains fixed in the quietude of the fields and the persistent, slow-moving currents of the local water.

About This Griswold Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Griswold, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.234991, -95.137493. 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 Griswold includes the ZIP code (51535), telephone area code (641), county seat of Cass County (Atlantic), and school district assignment (Griswold 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.