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Pleasantville Iowa Map

Explore Pleasantville, 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 Pleasantville, Iowa

How to Use This Pleasantville, Iowa Map

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

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

Latitude	41.385826
Longitude	-93.269374
Population	1,676
Density	264.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50225
Area Code	515
County Seat	Knoxville
School District	Pleasantville Community School District

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About Pleasantville, Iowa

Pleasantville is a locality in Marion County, Iowa, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,676. The population density is 264.4 people per km². Pleasantville is located at 41.3858°N, 93.2694°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Pleasantville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50225.

Pleasantville emerges from the broad, agrarian expanse of the Midwest as a quiet intersection of sky and soil, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a canopy of high, pale light. It lies 15.1 miles east of Indianola, IA (from Indianola, IA: bearing 83°T), and is situated 9.4 miles west-northwest of Knoxville. The land surrounding Pleasantville is defined by the rhythmic geometry of tilled fields, where the dark, fertile earth yields to the seasonal cycle of corn and soybean, their stalks swaying in the persistent prairie winds that scour the open plains. Nearby, the modest, winding course of Butcher Creek slices through the topography, a thin vein of riparian woodland that offers a dark, cool contrast to the sun-drenched agricultural grid. A few miles to the east, the expansive waters of Lake Red Rock temper the heat of summer afternoons, casting a shimmering, metallic reflection that draws the gaze toward the distant, hazy line of the horizon.

Economic life in Pleasantville maintains an unshowy, industrious pulse, anchored in the stewardship of the land and the modest commerce of a trade-based regional center. The local character is shaped by generations of settlers who transformed the tallgrass prairie into a grid of productivity, leaving behind a legacy of pragmatic, literate civility that persists in the quiet maintenance of its streets and the steady pace of its daily affairs. Beyond the town limits, Grant Nature Land provides a preserved fragment of the native landscape, allowing the original prairie flora to reclaim the margins of the cultivated world. Life here moves with the deliberateness of the seasons, a place where the weight of history is felt not in grand monuments, but in the enduring, quiet persistence of a community tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the vast, unobstructed Iowa sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Grant Nature Land (Local Park) — 3.9 mi, 309° NW
Red Rock Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.1 mi, 015° N
Lake Red Rock (Recreation Area) — 4.5 mi, 128° SE
Elk Rock State Park (State Park) — 8.3 mi, 081° E
Woodland Mounds State Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 8.4 mi, 260° W
Cordova Park (Local Park) — 8.8 mi, 072° E
National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum (Museum) — 9.1 mi, 116° SE
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 9.5 mi, 003° N · 12k acres
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.2 mi, 003° N · 12k acres
Bank Swallow Bend (Local Conservation Area) — 10.6 mi, 256° W
City Water Pump (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 263° W
Melcher-Dallas Coal Mining and Heritage Museum (Museum) — 11.3 mi, 173° S
Monroe Model House (Monument) — 12.7 mi, 042° NE
American Legion Dedication Wall (Monument) — 12.7 mi, 043° NE
Summerset Trail (State Recreation Area) — 13.4 mi, 304° NW
Painted Pony (Gallery) — 15.2 mi, 264° W
Black Box Theatre (Theatre) — 15.4 mi, 265° W
Carver Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 15.5 mi, 265° W
Warren County Historical Museum (Museum) — 16.1 mi, 263° W
Lake Ahquabi State Park (State Park) — 17.3 mi, 250° W
SEP Stadium (Stadium) — 17.3 mi, 327° NW
Belinda Toy and Antique Museum (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 167° S
Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium (Stadium) — 17.7 mi, 086° E
Kruidenier Center for Communication and Theatre (Theatre) — 18.0 mi, 087° E
Cox-Snow Music Center (Arts Centre) — 18.1 mi, 087° E
Rolscreen Museum (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 087° E
Klokkenspel (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 085° E
Barb Wire Point (Viewpoint) — 18.7 mi, 306° NW
Cattle Tie-Outs (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 20.2 mi, 315° NW
East Lakes (State Recreation Area) — 25.4 mi, 178° S

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