Oak Hills Iowa Map

About Oak Hills, Iowa

Oak Hills is a locality in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 186. The population density is 63.6 people per km². Oak Hills is located at 40.7603°N, 91.1480°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 52601.

Oak Hills rises from the vast, tilled expanse of the Iowa prairie where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that shifts from bruised violet to pale amber by twilight. It lies 3.7 miles south-southwest of Burlington, IA (from Burlington, IA: bearing 209°T), and is situated 4.5 miles south of West Burlington. The landscape around Oak Hills is defined by the steady work of the seasons, where the soil holds a dark, heavy richness and the wind carries the dry scent of drying corn stalks. A mile from the center, the quiet canopy of Hunt Woods offers a refuge of oak and hickory, while the nearby waters of Spring Creek cut a narrow, reed-lined path through the silt. Toward the west, the distant elevation of Gittings Mound marks the edge of the view, a subtle rise against the immense, open plains that define the local geography.

Oak Hills remains a place of quiet industry, grounded in the seasonal rhythms of soybean planting and the mechanical hum of harvest that dictates the pace of the calendar. The town reflects a heritage of Scandinavian and German settlement, visible in the solid, unadorned architecture of its storefronts and the pragmatic civility of its inhabitants. Residents often look toward the nearby depression of Mooney Pocket or visit the edges of Patterson Lake to find a moment of stillness away from the machinery of the fields. The economy continues to turn on the cultivation of the earth, a cycle that has persisted for generations, leaving the people of Oak Hills with a grounded, literate sensibility that values the slow maturation of both crops and character.

About This Oak Hills Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oak Hills, Iowa. Coordinates: 40.760317, -91.147955. 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 Oak Hills includes the ZIP code (52601), telephone area code (712), county seat of Des Moines County (Burlington), and school district assignment (Burlington 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.