Moulton Iowa Map

About Moulton, Iowa

Moulton is a locality in Appanoose County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 607. The population density is 231.1 people per km². Moulton is located at 40.6859°N, 92.6774°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Moulton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 52572.

Moulton emerges from the quiet intersection of prairie soil and the steady, narrow path of South Fox Creek. It lies 27.0 miles south-southwest of Ottumwa, IA (from Ottumwa, IA: bearing 211°T), and is situated 10.8 miles east-southeast of Centerville. The landscape surrounding Moulton spreads outward in a vast, rhythmic swell of tilled fields, where the dark, loamy earth catches the low-slung light of late afternoon, casting long, bruised shadows across the rows of corn and soybeans. Beyond the immediate horizon, the faint, hazy silhouette of White Oak Ridge marks the distance, a reminder of the tectonic weight that shaped these plains. Three miles away, the Sedan Bottoms Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary for reeds and wading birds, while the waters of Old Channel wait in stillness, held in the quiet hollows of the landscape like a memory of a wetter season.

Expansion and settlement brought to Moulton the industrious spirit of those who sought to master the heavy soil, leaving a legacy of brick storefronts and homes that hold the heat of the sun long after the evening chill descends. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest, a persistent commerce that hums with the mechanical pulse of combines and the steady movement of grain through the elevators. There is a perceptible dignity in the way the morning air carries the scent of damp earth and diesel, an unshowy civility that defines the daily labor of the people who call this place home. Life here moves according to the turning of the seasons, a slow and deliberate passage of time that honors the resilience of the land and the quiet, persistent work of those who tend it.

About This Moulton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Moulton, Iowa. Coordinates: 40.685853, -92.677415. 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 Moulton includes the ZIP code (52572), telephone area code (712), county seat of Appanoose County (Centerville), and school district assignment (Moulton-Udell 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.