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Mount Auburn Iowa Map

Explore Mount Auburn, 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 Mount Auburn, Iowa

How to Use This Mount Auburn, Iowa Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Mount Auburn, 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 Mount Auburn.

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	Mount Auburn
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Benton County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	42.254993
Longitude	-92.092682
Population	162
Density	254.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	52313
Area Code	712
County Seat	Vinton
School District	Union Community School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Red Fox Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 116° SE
Cedar Island Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 339° N
Winegar Lake-Tobin Park Access (Local Park) — 3.1 mi, 038° NE
Dudgeon Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 144° SE
Minnie Estema Access (State Recreation Area) — 3.5 mi, 085° E
Cedar Valley Nature Trail (Local Park) — 3.7 mi, 003° N
Spring Creek Flats (Local Conservation Area) — 3.9 mi, 355° N
Dudgeon Lake Access (State Recreation Area) — 5.5 mi, 140° SE
Iowa's Largest Frying Pan (Attraction) — 6.0 mi, 046° NE
FFA Historical and Ag Museum (Museum) — 6.5 mi, 309° NW
Vinton Railroad Depot and Museum (Museum) — 7.2 mi, 150° SE
Lokolo (Attraction) — 16.7 mi, 320° NW
Mama Pezaki (Attraction) — 16.7 mi, 319° NW
Mura Dancer (Attraction) — 16.8 mi, 319° NW
Cedar Rock (State Park) — 18.1 mi, 058° NE
Riverwalk Parks Community Bandshell (Theatre) — 18.1 mi, 034° NE
POW Memorial (Monument) — 20.8 mi, 323° NW
USS Frank E. Evans D7540 (Monument) — 20.8 mi, 323° NW
Statue Of Liberty Replica (Public Artwork) — 20.8 mi, 323° NW
National Wrestling Hall Of Fame (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 323° NW
Phelps Youth Pavillion (Museum) — 21.1 mi, 323° NW
Hudson Depot Museum (Museum) — 21.1 mi, 300° NW
McBride Auditorium (Theatre) — 22.8 mi, 326° NW
George Wyth State Park (State Park) — 23.1 mi, 321° NW
In Honor of the Veterans of Benton County (Monument) — 23.5 mi, 149° SE
Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.3 mi, 204° SW · 24k acres
Witch's Basement (Historic Ruins) — 26.8 mi, 130° SE
Collins Road Theatres (Cinema) — 28.7 mi, 123° SE
Studio 17 of the Eastern Iowa ARTS Academy (Arts Centre) — 28.7 mi, 128° SE
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.5 mi, 055° NE · 274k acres

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