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Swea City Iowa Map

Explore Swea City, 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 Swea City, Iowa

How to Use This Swea City, Iowa Map

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

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

Latitude	43.384403
Longitude	-94.314968
Population	566
Density	286.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50590
Area Code	319
County Seat	Algona
School District	North Kossuth Community School District

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About Swea City, Iowa

Swea City is a locality in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 566. The population density is 286.4 people per km². Swea City is located at 43.3844°N, 94.3150°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Swea City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50590.

Swea City anchors itself firmly amidst a vast, geometric expanse of tilled black earth where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising under an immense, pale sky. It lies 45.0 miles east-northeast of Spencer, IA (from Spencer, IA: bearing 68°T), and is situated 19.9 miles south-southeast of Fairmont. The landscape around Swea City is defined by the relentless regularity of corn and soybean rows that ripple toward the distance, interrupted only by the occasional shelterbelt of trees or the slow, meandering path of Mud Creek. At dusk, the light here turns a bruised, singular gold, casting long shadows across the fields that seem to amplify the silence of the plains. A few miles away, the Kossuth County Waterfowl Production Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and seasonal wetlands, providing a quiet contrast to the structured precision of the surrounding farms.

Economic life in Swea City remains tethered to the rhythms of the seasons, as the machinery of agriculture dictates the tempo of the calendar from spring planting to the harvest. Settled by those who sought the promise of fertile soil, the community maintains a stoic, industrious character shaped by the heritage of its early Scandinavian and German pioneers. While the Burnt Out Lakebed and the waters of East Chain Lake sit ten miles distant, the land itself holds the memory of ancient glacial movements, creating a subtle, persistent gravity in the way local life unfolds. Daily existence proceeds with an unshowy, pragmatic civility, where the weight of history is found not in grand monuments, but in the enduring continuity of the work performed beneath the wide, open canopy of the Iowa heavens.

Nearby Outdoor Places

In the Park (Public Artwork) — 0.4 mi, 086° E
Kossuth County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 4.2 mi, 110° E
Eagle Lake (Local Conservation Area) — 5.6 mi, 322° NW
Seneca Access (State Recreation Area) — 6.1 mi, 223° SW
East Des Moines River Access (State Recreation Area) — 7.3 mi, 257° W
State Line Marsh Waterfowl Production Area (State Resource Management Area) — 7.4 mi, 338° N
Burt Lake (Local Conservation Area) — 8.1 mi, 337° NW
Goose Lake (Kossuth) Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.1 mi, 329° NW
Iowa Lake Marsh Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.4 mi, 324° NW
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 9.7 mi, 347° N
Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.4 mi, 115° SE · 5,668 acres
Lone Rock (Attraction) — 11.4 mi, 183° S
Emmet County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 14.3 mi, 300° NW
MIA-POW Display (Monument) — 17.1 mi, 126° SE
Heritage Museum (Museum) — 18.4 mi, 090° E
Martin County Historical Society and Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 19.8 mi, 339° N
Fairmont Opera House (Theatre) — 19.9 mi, 338° N
Peterson Point Historical Farmstead (Museum) — 20.2 mi, 254° W
Etta C Ross Museum (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 032° NE
Wakefield House Museum (Museum) — 20.7 mi, 032° NE
Five Island Lake Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 23.0 mi, 227° SW
Estherville Meteorite Memorial (Monument) — 25.5 mi, 279° W
Wild Rose Casino and Resort (Attraction) — 25.5 mi, 223° SW
Estherville Meteorite Sculpture (Monument) — 26.0 mi, 273° W
Estherville Rock Garden (Attraction) — 26.7 mi, 272° W
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.2 mi, 156° SE · 12k acres
Ringham Habitat Area (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 28.4 mi, 280° W
Odvin Hagen Music Center (Arts Centre) — 34.9 mi, 104° E
Old Mill (Historic Ruins) — 39.8 mi, 036° NE
Ranch Amusement Park (Theme Park) — 40.6 mi, 271° W

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