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St. Joseph Iowa Map

Explore St. Joseph, 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. Joseph, Iowa

How to Use This St. Joseph, Iowa Map

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

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. Joseph
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Kossuth County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	42.913303
Longitude	-94.227185
Population	51
Density	22.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	50519
Area Code	319
County Seat	Algona
School District	Algona Community School District

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About St. Joseph, Iowa

St. Joseph is a locality in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 51. The population density is 22.8 people per km². St. Joseph is located at 42.9133°N, 94.2272°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 50519.

St. Joseph rises from the fertile, black-soiled plains of the Midwest, defined by the persistent, rhythmic flow of the East Fork Des Moines River that carves a quiet path through the surrounding fields. It lies 28.9 miles north of Fort Dodge, IA (from Fort Dodge, IA: bearing 354°T), and is situated 10.8 miles south of Algona. The landscape here is measured in vast, horizontal expanses of soybean and corn that catch the low, honeyed light of dusk, turning the horizon into a blurred seam of gold and copper. A few miles away, the quiet expanse of Devine Wildlife offers a sanctuary where the tallgrass prairie still whispers of the past, providing a stark, uncultivated contrast to the meticulously organized rows that stretch toward the horizon. The air in St. Joseph holds a crisp, dry clarity, particularly in the autumn when the scent of turning earth and drying husks settles over the land, grounding the spirit in the steady, seasonal work of the soil.

Generations of families have anchored their lives to this earth, drawing a distinct, unshowy civility from the German and Scandinavian traditions that first broke the sod of these plains. The economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the agricultural cycle, where the prosperity of St. Joseph is written in the success of the harvest and the steady, mechanical hum of machinery that marks the start and end of the growing season. While the pace of existence is deliberate, there is a deep, literate awareness here, a quiet appreciation for the stillness that allows thought to flourish amidst the wide, open sky. Even as modern industry moves forward, the people maintain a connection to the geography of their ancestors, finding a sense of permanence in the way the river bends and the way the light fades over the fields, far from the reach of Lake Smith, yet entirely shaped by the water and wind that define this specific stretch of the prairie.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Devine Wildlife (Local Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 353° N
Lotts Creek (Local Park) — 3.3 mi, 158° S
East Fork DSM River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 357° N
East Fork Access (Local Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 135° SE
Ottosen Potholes Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.4 mi, 225° SW
Ambrose A. Call State Park (State Park) — 9.4 mi, 355° N
Kossuth County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 9.6 mi, 046° NE
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 9.6 mi, 042° NE · 12k acres
Kossuth County Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.7 mi, 357° N
Camp Algona POW Museum (Museum) — 10.7 mi, 357° N
Kossuth Lajos (Public Artwork) — 10.8 mi, 357° N
Three Rivers Trail (Local Park) — 11.0 mi, 189° S
West Bend Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 11.5 mi, 286° W
Willows Access (State Recreation Area) — 12.5 mi, 231° SW
Humboldt County Historical Museum (Museum) — 13.3 mi, 172° S
Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.2 mi, 009° N · 5,668 acres
Cylinder Heritage Museum (Museum) — 20.4 mi, 307° NW
Lone Rock (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 346° N
Eagle Grove War Memorial (Monument) — 23.9 mi, 136° SE
MIA-POW Display (Monument) — 24.5 mi, 023° NE
Britt Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock (Monument) — 24.9 mi, 059° NE
Wild Rose Casino and Resort (Attraction) — 26.0 mi, 303° NW
Five Island Lake Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 27.2 mi, 308° NW
Hawkeye Community Theater (Theatre) — 27.8 mi, 175° S
Brushy Creek State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 34.1 mi, 163° S
Boneyard Hollow (Attraction) — 36.4 mi, 168° S
Copperas Beds (Attraction) — 37.2 mi, 169° S
Odvin Hagen Music Center (Arts Centre) — 38.2 mi, 051° NE
Southpark 7 Theatres (Cinema) — 49.3 mi, 288° W
Ringham Habitat Area (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 49.5 mi, 319° NW

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