Explore Harvey, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Harvey, 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 Harvey.
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 | Harvey |
| State | Iowa (IA) |
| County | Marion County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.315833 |
| Longitude | -92.924088 |
| Population | 236 |
| Density | 134.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 50119 |
| Area Code | 515 |
| County Seat | Knoxville |
| School District | Knoxville Community School District |
Harvey occupies a quiet stretch of land where the persistent, winding course of English Creek defines the rhythm of the immediate terrain. It lies 6.4 miles south of Pella, IA (from Pella, IA: bearing 184°T), and is situated 9.6 miles east of Knoxville. The landscape surrounding Harvey is characterized by vast, open expanses of tilled earth, where the soil holds the deep, dark promise of the prairie and the horizon remains unbroken by anything but the seasonal cycle of corn and soybeans. Sunlight here possesses a particular clarity, turning the fields into a flat, golden sea of stalks at dusk, while the air carries the dry, honest scent of turned loam and distant, cooling water. Only a few miles away, the expansive reach of Lake Red Rock gathers the sky into its surface, mirroring the changing clouds that drift across the plains with an unhurried, heavy grace.
Economic life in Harvey remains tethered to the patient labor of agriculture, reflecting a history built by those who broke the sod and organized their lives around the seasonal harvest. The remnants of earlier coal mining days linger in the memory of the land, though the modern pace is now dictated by the steady, mechanical hum of machinery and the quietude of a place that values self-reliance. Residents often look toward the Pella Wildlife Management Area for a connection to the raw, untamed elements of the region, or find their way to the Volksweg Trail to trace the paths that skirt the edges of the water. Life in Harvey moves with a predictable, literate civility, grounded in the traditions of the families who settled these plains and maintained a steadfast presence amidst the shifting winds of the Midwest.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Harvey, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.315833, -92.924088. 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 Harvey includes the ZIP code (50119), telephone area code (515), county seat of Marion County (Knoxville), and school district assignment (Knoxville Community School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |