Explore Hull, 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 Hull, 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 Hull.
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 | Hull |
| State | Iowa (IA) |
| County | Sioux County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 43.188592 |
| Longitude | -96.133633 |
| Population | 2,384 |
| Density | 660.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 51239 |
| Area Code | 563 |
| County Seat | Orange City |
| School District | Boyden-Hull Community School District |
Hull emerges from the vast, planar expanse of northwestern Iowa as a collection of low-slung rooftops punctuating the horizon where the sky claims more than its fair share of the world. It lies 27.3 miles north of Le Mars, IA (from Le Mars, IA: bearing 3°T), and is situated 7.8 miles north-northeast of Sioux Center. The landscape surrounding Hull consists of relentless, geometric fields of corn and soybeans that shift in color from the vibrant, tender green of spring to the brittle, golden stalks of autumn, all under a vast and unsparing dome of light. A mile away, the quiet, persistent current of Burr Oak Creek cuts a thin, earthen vein through the heavy soil, providing a modest riparian corridor that contrasts with the absolute order of the tilled dirt. Four miles out, the DeKoster Refuge offers a rare sanctuary of unmanicured prairie, where wild grasses and native flora thrive in a deliberate, quiet defiance of the surrounding agricultural machine.
Settlement in Hull reflects the steady, industrious character of the Dutch and Scandinavian pioneers who first broke this sod, leaving a legacy of sturdy brick architecture and a culture defined by a quiet, literate civility. The economy remains tethered to the rhythmic cycles of the land, with grain elevators standing as the sentinels of the local trade, observing the slow, methodical movement of trucks and machinery that dictate the pace of the day. Life here moves in accordance with the seasons rather than the clock, a pragmatic existence where the value of a person is measured by the care they take with their work and the consistency of their presence. On clear days, the distant silhouette of the Canton Mounds marks the edge of the known geography, a faint reminder of the geological scale that rests beneath the industrious, everyday labor of the people who call Hull home.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hull, Iowa. Coordinates: 43.188592, -96.133633. 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 Hull includes the ZIP code (51239), telephone area code (563), county seat of Sioux County (Orange City), and school district assignment (Boyden-Hull 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. |