Larrabee Iowa Map

About Larrabee, Iowa

Larrabee is a locality in Cherokee County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 123. The population density is 365.3 people per km². Larrabee is located at 42.8608°N, 95.5453°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Larrabee is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51029.

Larrabee sits anchored amidst the vast, fertile expanse of northwestern Iowa, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a sky that shifts from pale azure to bruised violet by late afternoon. It lies 22.8 miles northwest of Storm Lake, IA (from Storm Lake, IA: bearing 312°T), and is situated 7.7 miles north of Cherokee. Gray Creek carves a quiet, meandering path through the terrain, its waters reflecting the passing clouds as it winds past the edges of the settlement. Barely a mile away, the T.H. Steele Prairie State Preserve guards a fragment of the original tallgrass landscape, where the wind ripples through ancient stems with a rhythmic, sighing persistence. In the distance, the elevation of Pilot Rock serves as a solitary landmark against the flat, geometric precision of the surrounding fields, grounding the view in a deep, geologic stillness.

Larrabee maintains an economy deeply intertwined with the rhythms of the soil, defined by the seasonal labor of soybean and corn production that dictates the pulse of the workday. The local character is tempered by a legacy of German and Scandinavian settlers who instilled a quiet, disciplined industry that remains evident in the well-tended fences and sturdy structures of the district. While the nearest water of size, Storm Lake, lies twenty-two miles to the east, the inhabitants of Larrabee look toward their own immediate, modest landscape for a sense of place. Life here unfolds with a deliberate, unadorned civility, marked by the steady hum of machinery during the harvest and the persistent, literate quiet that settles over the plains when the sun dips low behind the western fields.

About This Larrabee Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Larrabee, Iowa. Coordinates: 42.860814, -95.545285. 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 Larrabee includes the ZIP code (51029), telephone area code (563), county seat of Cherokee County (Cherokee), and school district assignment (Cherokee Community School District).

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.