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St. Charles Iowa Map

Explore St. Charles, 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 St. Charles, Iowa

How to Use This St. Charles, Iowa Map

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

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	St. Charles
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Madison County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.288326
Longitude	-93.809389
Population	640
Density	397.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50240
Area Code	515
County Seat	Winterset
School District	Interstate 35 Community School District

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About St. Charles, Iowa

St. Charles is a locality in Madison County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 640. The population density is 397.9 people per km². St. Charles is located at 41.2883°N, 93.8094°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Charles is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50240.

St. Charles marks the horizon with a quiet persistence where the land folds into long, rhythmic swells of fertile earth. It lies 13.9 miles west-southwest of Indianola, IA (from Indianola, IA: bearing 250°T), and is situated 14.6 miles south-southwest of Norwalk. Painter Creek carves a shallow, wandering path through the landscape, its banks lined with dense thickets that catch the pale, amber light of late afternoon. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the terrain opens into expansive, tilled fields that stretch toward the distance, where the sky often appears vast and heavy with the promise of changing weather. This part of the plains maintains a singular stillness, broken only by the rustle of dry stalks or the sudden flight of a bird rising from the tall grasses near the edges of the fields.

St. Charles carries the imprint of settlers who turned the heavy, dark soil into a steady rhythm of commerce and harvest, grounding the local economy in the reliable cycles of agriculture. A few miles away, the quiet expanse of Jensen Marsh provides a sanctuary for wildlife, offering a contrast to the structured geometry of the surrounding farms. While the residents look toward the wider world, the pace of life remains tethered to the season, much like the water that gathers at Cedar Lake, which sits eleven miles away as a distant, glassy mirror for the clouds. This locale endures with a modest, unshowy civility, holding fast to the persistent, pragmatic character of a place built upon the patient labor of generations.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Jensen Marsh (Local Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 001° N
Great Western Trail (Local Park) — 6.5 mi, 030° NE
Rolling Thunder Prairie State Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 127° SE
Clanton Creek Recreation Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 232° SW
Middle River Park (Local Park) — 10.0 mi, 282° W
Lake Ahquabi State Park (State Park) — 10.9 mi, 088° E
John Wayne (Public Artwork) — 11.0 mi, 286° W
Hooper Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.1 mi, 095° E
Whitley Memorial (Monument) — 11.4 mi, 091° E
Warren County Historical Museum (Museum) — 12.9 mi, 068° E
Badger Creek State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 13.3 mi, 338° N
Carver Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 13.7 mi, 067° NE
Black Box Theatre (Theatre) — 13.8 mi, 067° NE
Painted Pony (Gallery) — 13.8 mi, 068° E
Summerset Trail (State Recreation Area) — 14.1 mi, 068° E
Banner Lakes At Summerset State Park (State Park) — 16.7 mi, 052° NE
Osceola Statue (Attraction) — 17.9 mi, 175° S
City Water Pump (Monument) — 18.2 mi, 073° E
Giraffe Feeding (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 031° NE
Funny Bone Comedy Club (Theatre) — 18.9 mi, 004° N
The Mormon Trail / Utopian Experiments in Southern Iowa (Monument) — 19.0 mi, 178° S
Blue Zoo (Aquarium) — 19.1 mi, 001° N
Olson-Larson Galleries (Gallery) — 20.2 mi, 015° N
Des Moines Art Center (Museum) — 21.5 mi, 018° N
Lookout Point (Viewpoint) — 21.5 mi, 035° NE
Iowa Hall of Pride (Museum) — 23.1 mi, 025° NE
Liz Lidgett Gallery & Design (Gallery) — 23.1 mi, 026° NE
1700 Tanning Rack (Attraction) — 23.3 mi, 004° N
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.6 mi, 057° NE · 12k acres
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.1 mi, 059° NE · 12k acres

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