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New Sharon Iowa Map

Explore New Sharon, 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 New Sharon, Iowa

How to Use This New Sharon, Iowa Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for New Sharon, 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 New Sharon.

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	New Sharon
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Mahaska County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.470002
Longitude	-92.651302
Population	1,262
Density	517.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50207
Area Code	515
County Seat	Oskaloosa
School District	North Mahaska Community School District

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About New Sharon, Iowa

New Sharon is a locality in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,262. The population density is 517.8 people per km². New Sharon is located at 41.4700°N, 92.6513°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. New Sharon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50207.

New Sharon emerges from the vast, dark-soiled expanse of the Iowa prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a sky that shifts from pale morning violet to a heavy, bruised gold by late afternoon. It lies 12.0 miles north of Oskaloosa, IA (from Oskaloosa, IA: bearing 358°T), and is situated 14.4 miles east-northeast of Pella. The landscape is defined by the steady, rhythmic geometry of tilled fields, their furrows tracing the contours of the land toward the North Skunk River, which carves a quiet, wooded path just two miles from the center of the grid. To the west, the air carries a crispness that hints at the distant, ancient shifts of the Loess Hills, while the immediate periphery is softened by the wilder, unmanicured growth of the Ever-Tru Natural Wilderness Area. This proximity to the untamed thickets provides a necessary counterpoint to the orderly, industrious rows of soybean and corn that define the season’s labor and dictate the slow, purposeful pulse of the days.

Economic life in New Sharon remains tethered to the vitality of the soil and the legacy of agricultural trade, a heritage woven into the stoic character of its residents. Long ago, the settlement took root as a modest node of commerce, drawing settlers who valued the persistence required to work such fertile ground; today, the influence of those early families persists in the sturdy, unadorned architecture and a quiet, literate civility that favors substance over display. Residents often find respite in the stillness near Lake Ponderosa, where the water reflects the changing seasons with a mirror-like clarity that seems to distill the very essence of the plains. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a harvest, where the value of a person is measured by their constancy and the weight of their word, creating a culture that is as deep and enduring as the black earth beneath the plow.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ever-Tru Natural Wilderness Area (Local Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 347° N
Robertson's Access (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 360° N
Millgrove Access Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 351° N
Union Mills Access (State Recreation Area) — 3.8 mi, 102° E
Millgrove Access (State Recreation Area) — 3.9 mi, 341° N
Winford Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 196° S
Hawthorn Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 086° E
Nelson Pioneer Farm Museum (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 171° S
Wagaman Mill Museum (Museum) — 10.2 mi, 318° NW
Chief Mahaska Statue (Monument) — 12.1 mi, 178° S
Vermeer Museum and Global Pavilion (Museum) — 12.2 mi, 250° W
Van Wyk Winery (Historic Castle / Fort) — 12.5 mi, 307° NW
Jasper County Freedom Rock (Monument) — 12.6 mi, 307° NW
The Morgan Cabin (Monument) — 12.8 mi, 180° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 12.9 mi, 172° S
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 12.9 mi, 182° S
Lake Keomah State Park (State Park) — 13.3 mi, 156° SE
Klokkenspel (Attraction) — 14.4 mi, 252° W
Fire Station Museum (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 252° W
Rolscreen Museum (Museum) — 14.6 mi, 250° W
Douwstra Auditorium (Theatre) — 14.7 mi, 251° W
Cox-Snow Music Center (Arts Centre) — 14.8 mi, 251° W
Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium (Stadium) — 15.0 mi, 253° W
Jacob Krumm East Access (Nature Reserve) — 17.6 mi, 338° N
Jacob Krumm Ahrens Access (Nature Reserve) — 17.7 mi, 337° NW
Rock Creek State Park (State Park) — 18.7 mi, 328° NW
HA Lynn Football Stadium (Stadium) — 26.0 mi, 306° NW
Capitol II (Cinema) — 26.2 mi, 308° NW
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.9 mi, 281° W · 12k acres
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.0 mi, 279° W · 12k acres

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