Mount Auburn Iowa Map

About Mount Auburn, Iowa

Mount Auburn is a locality in Benton County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 162. The population density is 254.3 people per km². Mount Auburn is located at 42.2550°N, 92.0927°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mount Auburn is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 52313.

Mount Auburn emerges from the flat, horizon-bound expanse of the Iowa plains where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 20.8 miles southeast of Waterloo, IA (from Waterloo, IA: bearing 142°T), and is situated 6.9 miles north-northwest of Vinton. The landscape is defined by the disciplined geometry of corn and soybean fields, a vast grid of green and gold that stretches toward the distant, hazy suggestion of The Hogback on the western edge. A mile to the east, Spring Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path through the soil, its banks lined with the tangled, silver-barked skeletons of cottonwoods that catch the low, honeyed light of late afternoon. Three miles away, the Red Fox Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of tallgrass prairie, where the wind ripples through the stalks in a constant, hushed conversation that feels as old as the glacial till beneath the topsoil.

Mount Auburn maintains a quiet, agrarian pulse, its history written in the sturdy brick foundations and the modest, utilitarian architecture of its modest residential blocks. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the seasons, dominated by the labor of the harvest and the steady, mechanical hum of machinery that marks the passage of the year. There is a particular, unshowy literacy here, a sense that the inhabitants prefer the company of their own thoughts and the quiet industry of their work over the clamor of wider horizons. While Ice House Lake lies twelve miles off, the residents find their respite closer to home, in the expansive, unobstructed views of the sunset that turn the gray-blue clouds into bruised plums and embers, grounding the day in a beauty that requires no audience.

About This Mount Auburn Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Auburn, Iowa. Coordinates: 42.254993, -92.092682. 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 Mount Auburn includes the ZIP code (52313), telephone area code (712), county seat of Benton County (Vinton), and school district assignment (Union 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.