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Jolley Iowa Map

Explore Jolley, 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 Jolley, Iowa

How to Use This Jolley, Iowa Map

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

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

Latitude	42.478868
Longitude	-94.71887
Population	28
Density	124.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50551
Area Code	319
County Seat	Rockwell City
School District	South Central Calhoun Community School District

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About Jolley, Iowa

Jolley is a locality in Calhoun County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 28. The population density is 124.3 people per km². Jolley is located at 42.4789°N, 94.7189°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Jolley is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50551.

Jolley reveals itself through the patient, heavy geometry of the Iowa plains, where the horizon stretches into a thin, taut line between the black earth and the pale, expansive sky. It lies 27.4 miles east-southeast of Storm Lake, IA (from Storm Lake, IA: bearing 114°T), and is situated 7.2 miles northwest of Rockwell City. West Fork Camp Creek traces a quiet, muddy artery through the fields just a mile away, its banks marked by the seasonal pulse of silt and rain. The light here at dusk possesses a peculiar, amber gravity, lengthening the shadows of silos and grain elevators until they seem to anchor the very rotation of the earth. Three miles distant, the South Twin Lake Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and reeds, a necessary pause in the relentless productivity of the surrounding grid. Jolley remains a place where the wind carries the dry, rhythmic whisper of cornstalks, asserting a landscape defined not by sudden drama, but by the steady, horizontal persistence of the land.

Jolley emerged from the nineteenth-century expansion of the railroads, serving as a vital point for the heavy, golden commerce of the harvest. The local economy stays tethered to the soil, with the daily life of residents organized around the slow, methodical turn of the planting and reaping seasons. Generations of families with German and Scandinavian roots have shaped the unshowy, literate civility of the streets, where the labor of the farm informs a practical, quiet resilience. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the landscape holds the memory of a deeper, untamed prairie, though today the primary industry remains the careful cultivation of soybeans and corn. While the distant silhouette of Gun Shot Hill occasionally interrupts the flat perspective of the far horizon, the pulse of Jolley is found in the machinery of the fields and the enduring, modest patterns of an agricultural life.

Nearby Outdoor Places

South Twin Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 120° SE
Hendricks Sanctuary (Local Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 117° SE
Twin Lakes State Park (State Park) — 4.0 mi, 097° E
Gutz Prairie (Local Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 082° E
Featherstone Memorial County Park (Local Park) — 4.6 mi, 078° E
Featherstone Memorial Park (Local Park) — 4.9 mi, 078° E
Towhead Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 295° NW
Fonda Opera House Museum (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 318° NW
Leo Shimon Marsh Waterfowl Production Area (State Resource Management Area) — 12.7 mi, 323° NW
Pocahontas County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 12.7 mi, 323° NW
Memorial Statue (Public Artwork) — 14.3 mi, 254° W
Lake City Capri Theater (Cinema) — 14.6 mi, 183° S
White Horse Access (State Recreation Area) — 15.1 mi, 217° SW
Black Hawk State Park (State Park) — 19.1 mi, 232° SW
Lake View Historical Museum (Museum) — 20.2 mi, 235° SW
Chief Black Hawk Statue (Monument) — 20.3 mi, 235° SW
Fleege Farm (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 006° N
Bald Eagle Nest (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 233° SW
Poduska Farm (Museum) — 21.4 mi, 015° N
Albert City Historical Museum (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 331° NW
J. Leslie Rollins Stadium (Stadium) — 27.3 mi, 294° NW
Hawkeye Community Theater (Theatre) — 27.4 mi, 085° E
Carroll 5 Theater (Cinema) — 29.6 mi, 195° S
Copperas Beds (Attraction) — 32.9 mi, 101° E
Boneyard Hollow (Attraction) — 33.2 mi, 099° E
War Memorial (Monument) — 34.0 mi, 215° SW
Lincoln Statue (Monument) — 36.6 mi, 151° SE
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 43.9 mi, 337° NW · 12k acres
Wild Rose Casino and Resort (Attraction) — 44.1 mi, 004° N
Donna Reed Center for Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 45.6 mi, 226° SW

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