Urbana Iowa Map

About Urbana, Iowa

Urbana is a locality in Benton County, Iowa, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,554. The population density is 294.7 people per km². Urbana is located at 42.2286°N, 91.8867°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Urbana is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 52345.

Urbana occupies a quiet expanse of the Midwestern plains, where the horizon stretches wide and the sky asserts an immense, pale authority over the tilled earth. It lies 19.0 miles northwest of Cedar Rapids, IA (from Cedar Rapids, IA: bearing 322°T), and is situated 8.5 miles east-northeast of Vinton. The landscape around Urbana is defined by the steady, rhythmic geometry of corn and soybean rows that ripple toward the distance, broken only by the thin, dark ribbon of West Branch Blue Creek as it carves a slow passage through the loam. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of The Hogback rises against the late afternoon sun, a distant reminder of the earth’s ancient folding, while the local air carries the dry, honest scent of turned soil and cooling metal. Residents often seek the solitude of Wildcat Bluff Access, where the transition from cultivated field to wilder brush offers a brief, shaded reprieve from the flat intensity of the surrounding acreage.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the local economy, a legacy of the German and Scandinavian settlers who first recognized the fertility of this dark, heavy soil. Life in Urbana moves with the seasonal clock, marked by the mechanical hum of planters in the spring and the deep, dusty amber of the harvest, a cycle that has persisted with a quiet, literate civility for generations. While the proximity of Ice House Lake provides a modest, reflective surface for the quiet hours of a weekend, the true character of the place is found in the unshowy persistence of those who work the land. Education and local enterprise anchor the daily routine, ensuring that Urbana remains a place of steady, grounded labor where the transitions between the work day and the long, expansive dusk feel both deliberate and entirely earned.

About This Urbana Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Urbana, Iowa. Coordinates: 42.228594, -91.886652. 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 Urbana includes the ZIP code (52345), telephone area code (712), county seat of Benton County (Vinton), and school district assignment (Center Point-Urbana Community School District).

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.