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Popejoy Iowa Map

Explore Popejoy, 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 Popejoy, Iowa

How to Use This Popejoy, Iowa Map

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

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

Latitude	42.593866
Longitude	-93.426039
Population	77
Density	39.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50227
Area Code	515
County Seat	Hampton
School District	Alden Community School District

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About Popejoy, Iowa

Popejoy is a locality in Franklin County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 77. The population density is 39.5 people per km². Popejoy is located at 42.5939°N, 93.4260°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Popejoy is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50227.

Popejoy occupies a quiet expanse of the high plains where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a sky that shifts from pale celadon to bruised violet. It lies 38.4 miles east of Fort Dodge, IA (from Fort Dodge, IA: bearing 80°T), and is situated 10.2 miles west-northwest of Iowa Falls. The landscape is defined by the rhythmic geometry of tilled fields, where the dark, rich soil supports heavy rows of corn and soybeans that absorb the summer heat. A mile to the west, the Iowa River cuts a subtle, meandering path through the earth, its presence marked by a thin ribbon of riparian trees that break the flat, agricultural monotony. Nearby, the quiet grounds of Popejoy Conservation Park offer a small, sheltered refuge of native grasses and thickets, providing a necessary stillness against the persistent, low-frequency hum of the wind across the plains.

History remains embedded in the physical layout of Popejoy, where the railroad once dictated the flow of grain and the arrival of goods, anchoring a local economy that still revolves around the seasonal cycles of harvest and planting. The architecture of the grain elevators serves as a vertical shorthand for the importance of the land, standing as weathered sentinels that have observed generations of farmers working the surrounding acreage. Eleven miles away, the waters of Big Wall Lake gather in the low ground, a feature that anchors the regional topography and reminds those who live here of the slow, deliberate pace of the natural world. Life in Popejoy is measured by the changing color of the crops and the steady, unshowy labor of a community that understands its place within the vast, productive silence of the Iowa prairie.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Popejoy Conservation Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 198° S
Iowa River Area (Local Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 180° S
Oakland Valley Game Management (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 219° SW
Oakland-Iowa River Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 250° W
Whitetail Flats Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 288° W
Dows Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 319° NW
Quasdorf Wagon, Machine and Blacksmith Shop Museum (Museum) — 5.9 mi, 320° NW
Coulter Marsh Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 358° N
Iowa Falls Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 9.4 mi, 123° SE
Dow House (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 121° SE
Iowa Falls Historical Museum - Sue Crotty Hisotrical Mueseum (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 121° SE
Union Depot (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 120° SE
Wright County Waterfowl Production Area Of Ia (Resource Management Area) — 11.0 mi, 283° W
Franklin County Historical Museum (Museum) — 14.6 mi, 046° NE
Beed's Lake State Park (State Park) — 14.8 mi, 035° NE
Ackley Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock (Monument) — 19.1 mi, 098° E
Eide Memorial Fountain (Public Artwork) — 21.3 mi, 265° W
Pine Lake State Park (State Park) — 23.0 mi, 132° SE
Grand Theatre (Cinema) — 23.2 mi, 134° SE
Story City Carousel (Attraction) — 29.2 mi, 196° S
Brushy Creek State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 30.4 mi, 244° SW
Boneyard Hollow (Attraction) — 35.8 mi, 248° W
Copperas Beds (Attraction) — 36.6 mi, 247° SW
Hawkeye Community Theater (Theatre) — 39.0 mi, 262° W
Acorn Music Hall (Theatre) — 39.0 mi, 194° S
North Grand Cinema (Cinema) — 39.0 mi, 195° S
Overlook (Viewpoint) — 40.0 mi, 198° S
"twister Hill" (Attraction) — 40.2 mi, 223° SW
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.5 mi, 311° NW · 12k acres
Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 56.2 mi, 319° NW · 5,668 acres

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