Explore Havelock, 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 Havelock, 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 Havelock.
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 | Havelock |
| State | Iowa (IA) |
| County | Pocahontas County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 42.836083 |
| Longitude | -94.700536 |
| Population | 130 |
| Density | 89.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 50546 |
| Area Code | 319 |
| County Seat | Pocahontas |
| School District | Pocahontas Area Community School District |
Havelock emerges from the flat, expansive horizon as a quiet grid of streets defined by the relentless geometry of the surrounding fields. It lies 29.1 miles east-northeast of Storm Lake, IA (from Storm Lake, IA: bearing 62°T), and is situated 19.1 miles south of Emmetsburg. The earth here is dark and heavy, a deep loam that yields to the season’s demands in vast, rhythmic stretches of corn and soybeans. Only a mile away, the North Branch Lizard Creek carves a thin, deliberate line through the soil, its banks shaded by sporadic thickets that break the monotony of the open prairie. To the west, the landscape holds a stillness that magnifies the sky, where the quality of light at dusk turns the clouds a bruised, luminous violet, casting long, lean shadows across the gravel roads that border the Havelock Wildlife Area.
Havelock carries the quiet resilience of a place built upon the labor of early settlers who recognized the promise in this fertile, inland expanse. The local economy remains tethered to the pulse of the harvest, with the grain elevator serving as the vertical anchor for a community that measures time by the turning of the seasons rather than the clock. While the pace of life maintains a deliberate, unadorned civility, the proximity to natural spaces like the Havelock Wildlife Area offers a necessary reprieve from the industry of the plow. A few miles further out, the waters of Rush Lake provide a silent, reflective surface that mirrors the changing seasons, grounding the people of Havelock in a landscape that requires little from them but patience and a steady hand.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Havelock, Iowa. Coordinates: 42.836083, -94.700536. 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 Havelock includes the ZIP code (50546), telephone area code (319), county seat of Pocahontas County (Pocahontas), and school district assignment (Pocahontas Area 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. |