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Underwood Iowa Map

Explore Underwood, 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 Underwood, Iowa

How to Use This Underwood, Iowa Map

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

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	Underwood
State	Iowa (IA)
County	Pottawattamie County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.386939
Longitude	-95.676674
Population	954
Density	338.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	51576
Area Code	641
County Seat	Council Bluffs
School District	Underwood Community School District

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About Underwood, Iowa

Underwood is a locality in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 954. The population density is 338.2 people per km². Underwood is located at 41.3869°N, 95.6767°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Underwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 51576.

Underwood maintains a quiet presence amidst the expansive, tilled acreage of the Iowa landscape, where the earth gives way to the subtle, wind-sculpted rise of the Loess Hills toward the west. It lies 12.9 miles northeast of Council Bluffs, IA (from Council Bluffs, IA: bearing 48°T), and is situated 16.2 miles east-northeast of Omaha. Mosquito Creek meanders past the periphery, its quiet flow defining the low-lying margins of the fields that stretch toward the horizon in shades of deep emerald and harvest gold. The air here carries a particular clarity, especially as the sun begins to dip, casting long, thin shadows across the rows of corn and soybeans that dominate the view. Five miles away, the quiet woodlands of Arrowhead Park offer a respite from the open expanse, providing a dense, green contrast to the otherwise uniform geometry of the surrounding farmland.

History in Underwood persists in the steady, pragmatic pace of a culture built upon agricultural labor and the resilience of those who first broke this prairie soil. While the local economy remains anchored to the seasonal cycles of grain and trade, the community retains an unshowy, literate civility that honors its heritage. A traveler might find the distance to Hanthorn Lake, twelve miles to the north, a modest journey for those seeking a change in the horizon, yet the true character of the locality is found in the daily rhythm of work and the permanence of the landscape. Life here moves with the deliberate weight of the seasons, an existence refined by the vast sky and the enduring, productive silence of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Arrowhead Park (Local Park) — 5.3 mi, 045° NE
Smith Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.8 mi, 229° SW
Hitchcock Nature Area (Local Park) — 9.1 mi, 277° W
Great Plains Wing Museum (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 207° SW
B-B Town Ball Field (Attraction) — 10.3 mi, 336° NW
Lewis and Clark Monument Park (Viewpoint) — 11.1 mi, 239° SW
Word of Honor (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 163° S
Treynor High School Auditorium (Arts Centre) — 11.4 mi, 162° S
Kinsman Monument (Monument) — 12.0 mi, 229° SW
Angel of Death Statue (Black Angel) (Monument) — 12.1 mi, 227° SW
Squirrel Nest (Public Artwork) — 12.7 mi, 226° SW
Council Bluffs Riverfront (State Recreation Area) — 12.7 mi, 235° SW
Union Pacific Railroad Museum (Museum) — 12.7 mi, 226° SW
Historic Squirrel Cage Jail (Attraction) — 12.7 mi, 226° SW
Old Town Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 12.9 mi, 316° NW
RailsWest Railroad Museum (Museum) — 13.3 mi, 223° SW
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.3 mi, 288° W · 7,936 acres
Ship Propellers (Attraction) — 13.9 mi, 237° SW
Missles (Attraction) — 13.9 mi, 237° SW
Historic Florence Depot Museum (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 258° W
Fontenelle Forest Association Local Resource Management Area (Local Resource Management Area) — 15.1 mi, 263° W
Florence Mill Museum (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 259° W
Lake Manawa State Park (State Park) — 15.2 mi, 214° SW
Ruth Sokolof Theater (Cinema) — 15.8 mi, 238° SW
Wabash Trace Nature Trail (State Recreation Area) — 15.8 mi, 187° S
Old Market Artists Gallery (Gallery) — 16.0 mi, 235° SW
Kaneko (Theatre) — 16.1 mi, 235° SW
Gifford Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.6 mi, 212° SW
Desoto National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.8 mi, 297° NW · 16k acres
Prairie Rose State Park (State Park) — 27.3 mi, 057° NE

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