Long Grove Iowa Map

About Long Grove, Iowa

Long Grove is a locality in Scott County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 838. The population density is 281.1 people per km². Long Grove is located at 41.6975°N, 90.5826°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Long Grove is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 52756.

Long Grove occupies a quiet expanse of the interior plains, where the horizon stretches wide and flat under a sky that feels immense and heavy with the promise of rain. It lies 12.0 miles north of Davenport, IA (from Davenport, IA: bearing 359°T), and is situated 2.7 miles north of Eldridge. The land here is defined by the steady, rhythmic geometry of tilled fields, where the dark soil supports a seasonal rotation of corn and soybeans that shift from vibrant green to a brittle, golden brown as the year wanes. A mile from the center, Mason Creek carves a thin, shadowed path through the earth, drawing moisture from the surrounding acreage and providing a slight, humid relief to the prevailing dryness of the plains. To the north, the terrain rises into subtle, sweeping undulations that offer a view of the distant Army Ridge Bluffs, their jagged outlines often blurred by the soft, hazy violet of a late afternoon sun.

Long Grove preserves a character forged by the persistent labor of settlers who recognized the agricultural potential of this fertile prairie. The economy remains anchored in the productivity of the surrounding farms, maintaining a pace that favors deliberate, predictable cycles over the frantic fluctuations of larger centers. While the proximity of Scott County Park provides a necessary escape into managed woodland and quiet observation, the local identity is quietly sustained by the legacy of the German and Scandinavian families who cleared the brush and established the grid. There is an unshowy, literate civility here, a sense that the people of Long Grove prefer the company of their own work and the slow, steady turning of the seasons to the noise of the outside world.

About This Long Grove Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Long Grove, Iowa. Coordinates: 41.69753, -90.582638. 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 Long Grove includes the ZIP code (52756), telephone area code (712), county seat of Scott County (Davenport), and school district assignment (North Scott 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.