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Lake Mills Iowa Map

Explore Lake Mills, 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 Lake Mills, Iowa

How to Use This Lake Mills, Iowa Map

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

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	Lake Mills
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Winnebago County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	43.419399
Longitude	-93.533268
Population	2,143
Density	304.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50450
Area Code	515
County Seat	Forest City
School District	Lake Mills Community School District

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About Lake Mills, Iowa

Lake Mills is a locality in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,143. The population density is 304.9 people per km². Lake Mills is located at 43.4194°N, 93.5333°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Lake Mills is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50450.

Lake Mills emerges from the expansive horizon of northern Iowa as a deliberate arrangement of brick and timber amidst a vast, undulating sea of tilled earth. It lies 24.8 miles northwest of Mason City, IA (from Mason City, IA: bearing 318°T), and is situated 17.8 miles south-southwest of Albert Lea. The landscape surrounding Lake Mills is defined by the rhythmic repetition of corn and soybean rows, stretching toward a skyline that remains unbroken save for the distant, hazy silhouette of Pilot Knob. Within a mile of the town’s edge, the Wood Duck Marsh Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and seasonal pools where the light catches the metallic sheen of water at dusk, while the nearby waters of Rice Lake and the quiet flow of Elk Creek carve subtle, cooling veins through the heavy, fertile soil. This terrain possesses a quiet gravity, an unshowy expanse where the wind moves with an uninterrupted intensity across the plains, shaping the very air that settles over the fields.

Scandinavian heritage serves as the bedrock of the local character, a legacy of industrious settlers who recognized the potential in the deep, dark loam and established a tradition of resilience that persists in the current economy. The pace of life in Lake Mills reflects a sturdy, utilitarian grace, where the focus remains on the cycles of the harvest and a quiet, literate civility that values communal stability over frantic growth. While the influence of larger regional centers is felt through the occasional exchange of ideas and commerce, the daily rhythm here is tethered to the land and the endurance of local enterprise. Residents move through their days with a steady, pragmatic focus, finding a distinct beauty in the gray, wintry stillness of the fields or the vibrant, emerald surge of early summer, maintaining a connection to the geography that is as enduring as the soil itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lake Mills Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 324° NW
Wood Duck Marsh Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 240° SW
Rice Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 155° SE
Winnebago County Waterfowl Production Area Of Ia (Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 161° S
Winnebago County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 161° S
Rice Lake Waterfowl Production Area (State Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 160° S
Hagen Prairie (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 316° NW
Wood Duck Marsh Waterfowl Production Area (State Resource Management Area) — 1.6 mi, 197° S
Larson-Tweed Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 001° N
Rice Lake State Park (State Park) — 2.3 mi, 149° SE
Lande River Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 312° NW
Holtan Farm Museum (Museum) — 10.5 mi, 213° SW
Thanks for Visiting Minnesota (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 057° NE
Minnesota Welcomes You (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 057° NE
Pilot Knob State Park (State Park) — 11.3 mi, 183° S
Mansion Museum (Museum) — 11.8 mi, 207° SW
Odvin Hagen Music Center (Arts Centre) — 12.1 mi, 207° SW
Buddy Holly Crash Site (Public Artwork) — 15.7 mi, 151° SE
Worth County Historical Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 084° E
Swensrud School Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 084° E
Alden Community Museum (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 353° N
Mall Cinema 7 Theatre (Cinema) — 20.2 mi, 026° NE
Brewery (Historic Ruins) — 23.6 mi, 133° SE
Winnebago Trail (Nature Reserve) — 24.1 mi, 135° SE
Mason City Communit Theatre (Theatre) — 25.1 mi, 138° SE
Rancho Deluxe (Attraction) — 25.1 mi, 137° SE
Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.8 mi, 258° W · 5,668 acres
Summerset Theater (Theatre) — 32.3 mi, 056° NE
Old Mill (Historic Ruins) — 33.3 mi, 333° NW
Watts Theater (Cinema) — 37.5 mi, 104° E

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