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Pisgah Iowa Map

Explore Pisgah, 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 Pisgah, Iowa

How to Use This Pisgah, Iowa Map

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

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	Pisgah
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Harrison County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.831377
Longitude	-95.925566
Population	249
Density	97.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	51564
Area Code	641
County Seat	Logan
School District	West Harrison Community School District

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About Pisgah, Iowa

Pisgah is a locality in Harrison County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 249. The population density is 97.4 people per km². Pisgah is located at 41.8314°N, 95.9256°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Pisgah is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51564.

Pisgah anchors a landscape defined by the persistent, rhythmic cutting of Cobb Creek as it carves through the earth toward the horizon. It lies 39.5 miles north of Council Bluffs, IA (from Council Bluffs, IA: bearing 355°T), and is situated 16.1 miles south-southeast of Onawa. The terrain here rises in sudden, wind-blown ridges, part of the Loess Hills State Forest that presses against the western edge of the settlement with thick, tangled corridors of oak and hickory. When the light leans low in the late afternoon, the silty soil takes on a pale, bruised gold hue, illuminating the deep cuts in the ground where the wind has shaped the land into a series of steep, grassy bluffs. The air carries the dry, earthen scent of a vast interior, far removed from any rising water, save for the modest, quiet presence of Smith Lake resting six miles to the east.

Pisgah stands as a quiet testament to the labor of those who broke the prairie sod, turning the expansive, fertile plains into a grid of soybean and corn that dictates the local economy and the slow, seasonal pulse of the year. The heritage of the families who settled these fields remains etched in the unshowy, literate civility of the people, who maintain a steady, industrious pace between the harvests. Daily life moves in alignment with the demands of the soil, grounded in a history of Scandinavian and German resilience that favors direct action over ornament. Walking through the quiet streets, one finds a place that does not seek attention, but instead finds a profound, solitary beauty in the way the shadows lengthen across the tilled fields at the end of a long, productive day.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Loess Hills State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 0.1 mi, 308° NW
Murray Hill Scenic Overlook (Local Park) — 3.9 mi, 278° W
Preparation Canyon State Park (State Park) — 4.0 mi, 008° N
Savery Pond (Local Park) — 4.6 mi, 061° NE
Gleason-Hubel Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 237° SW
Murray Hall (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 254° W
Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.1 mi, 256° W
Moorhead Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 7.3 mi, 032° NE
Deer Island Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 272° W
Pelican Point State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 9.5 mi, 272° W
Mondamin Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 211° SW
Pioneer Log Cabin (Attraction) — 9.8 mi, 165° S
Magnolia Town Pump (Attraction) — 9.9 mi, 164° S
Bullard-Soldiers Bend (State Recreation Area) — 10.8 mi, 235° SW
Merry Brook Schoolhouse & Harrison County Historical Society (Attraction) — 13.3 mi, 120° SE
Burt County Museum (Museum) — 15.6 mi, 257° W
Museum of Religious Arts (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 160° S
Monona County Veterans Memorial Museum (Museum) — 16.8 mi, 328° NW
Monona County Historical Museum (Museum) — 16.8 mi, 328° NW
Lewis and Clark State Park (State Park) — 18.1 mi, 319° NW
Tree Shelter (Public Artwork) — 19.0 mi, 320° NW
Desoto National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.6 mi, 189° S · 16k acres
Steamboat Museum (Museum) — 20.8 mi, 195° S
Madsen Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 22.7 mi, 211° SW
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.2 mi, 187° S · 7,936 acres
Pawnee Recreation Area Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 26.0 mi, 359° N
Sioux City - Smithland - Stagecoach Trail (Monument) — 27.6 mi, 358° N
Caboose (Monument) — 28.9 mi, 285° W
Upper Lake Cunningham Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 32.8 mi, 193° S
Vet's Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 33.5 mi, 112° E

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