Rodney Iowa Map

About Rodney, Iowa

Rodney is a locality in Monona County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 45. The population density is 114.3 people per km². Rodney is located at 42.2055°N, 95.9525°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rodney is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51051.

Rodney emerges from the loess-heavy earth as a modest cluster of dwellings defined by the relentless, geometric precision of the surrounding corn and soybean fields. It lies 30.6 miles southeast of Sioux City, IA (from Sioux City, IA: bearing 132°T), and is situated 14.4 miles north-northeast of Onawa. The horizon here is vast and stripped of pretense, dominated by the raw, undulating texture of the land that climbs toward the western edge in a series of dramatic, wind-blown bluffs. Just a mile away, the Little Sioux River carves a serpentine path through the deep silt, its dark, sluggish waters mirroring the heavy, humid light of late summer afternoons. At the very edge of the grid, Peter's Park offers a quiet threshold where the cultivated rows surrender to the wilder, unkempt grasses of the prairie, and the air carries the faint, dry scent of soil freshly turned by the plow.

History in Rodney remains etched into the spare, functional architecture of structures that have weathered decades of sharp winters and humid, gold-hued harvests. The local economy persists as a quiet conversation between the farmer and the unpredictable sky, a cycle of planting and reaping that dictates the slow, deliberate pulse of the day. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain dips toward the shadows of Smoky Hollow, a reminder of the tectonic patience that formed this landscape long before the first rail line arrived. Though the distance to the quiet waters of Horseshoe Lake is eleven miles and the summit of Durr Hill lies nine miles distant, the people of Rodney live with a singular, grounded awareness of the earth beneath their feet, finding a deep, unshowy solace in the rhythm of a season that turns precisely on the tilt of the sun.

About This Rodney Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rodney, Iowa. Coordinates: 42.205546, -95.952511. 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 Rodney includes the ZIP code (51051), telephone area code (563), county seat of Monona County (Onawa), and school district assignment (Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 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.