Explore Titonka, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Titonka, 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 Titonka.
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 | Titonka |
| State | Iowa (IA) |
| County | Kossuth County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 43.236906 |
| Longitude | -94.041344 |
| Population | 511 |
| Density | 699.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 50480 |
| Area Code | 515 |
| County Seat | Algona |
| School District | Algona Community School District |
Titonka emerges from the horizon as a low-slung grid of streets carved into the vast, tilled expanse of the north-central prairie. It lies 42.7 miles west of Mason City, IA (from Mason City, IA: bearing 278°T), and is situated 15.0 miles northeast of Algona. Buffalo Creek defines the edge of the landscape, its slow, muddy current carving a serpentine path through the fields where the earth is deep, black, and heavy with the promise of the coming harvest. The light here is unsparing and wide, stripping the color from the soybean leaves until they turn a dusty, muted gold under the weight of the afternoon. Only a mile away, the Kossuth County Waterfowl Production Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and seasonal wetlands, a quiet contrast to the precise geometry of the neighboring cornrows. When the air settles, one can catch the faint, cool breath of moisture rising from Darling Pool, a stillness that seems to suspend the town in an eternal, quiet autumn.
Titonka maintains a measured pace, built upon the sturdy foundation of agricultural industry and the collective memory of those who first broke this stubborn sod. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, where the movement of grain and the maintenance of machinery dictate the pulse of the working day. There is an unshowy civility in the way the local shops operate, a matter-of-fact endurance that reflects the Scandinavian and German heritage woven into the foundations of the regional culture. Though the world outside moves with a different velocity, life here is measured in the cycles of the earth and the steady, predictable turning of the year. To walk these streets is to recognize a place that asks for nothing more than the honest labor of its inhabitants, remaining anchored to the soil even as the sky stretches infinitely above.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Titonka, Iowa. Coordinates: 43.236906, -94.041344. 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 Titonka includes the ZIP code (50480), telephone area code (515), county seat of Kossuth County (Algona), and school district assignment (Algona Community School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |