Enter your search query in the box below.

Whitten Iowa Map

Explore Whitten, 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 Whitten, Iowa

How to Use This Whitten, Iowa Map

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

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

Latitude	42.260818
Longitude	-93.00548
Population	100
Density	77.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	50269
Area Code	515
County Seat	Eldora
School District	BCLUW Community School District

🌦 Goto Whitten Weather Page: Whitten, Iowa — Weather Warnings, Forecast, Radar, Satellite & Current Conditions

About Whitten, Iowa

Whitten is a locality in Hardin County, Iowa, United States. It is a small community with a population of 100. The population density is 77.7 people per km². Whitten is located at 42.2608°N, 93.0055°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Whitten is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 50269.

Whitten endures as a quiet expanse of tilled earth where the horizon stretches flat and wide under an immense, pale sky. It lies 15.4 miles north-northwest of Marshalltown, IA (from Marshalltown, IA: bearing 341°T), and is situated 8.4 miles southeast of Eldora. Dowd Creek carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the soil a mile away, its presence marked by the deepening of green in the low-lying grasses and the sudden shift in the wind’s temperament. To the west, the distant rise of Mormon Ridge provides a faint, serrated edge against the dusk, while the expansive, dark-soiled fields dictate the slow, deliberate pace of the seasons. In the amber light of late afternoon, the texture of the land reveals itself in the fine, dusty silver of drying corn stalks and the heavy, fertile scent of upturned loam that defines the air.

Whitten grew from the necessity of the rail and the promise of the grain, maintaining an economy tethered firmly to the cyclical labor of the harvest. Families here have long traded in the currency of soybeans and corn, their heritage woven into the stoic, unshowy civility of the plains. For those seeking a moment of stillness, Daisy Long Memorial Park offers a brief reprieve of trees and shade, while the waters of Upper Pine Lake remain a silent, distant presence eight miles to the north. Life in Whitten remains dictated by the sun and the soil, a place where the modern world is measured not by the rush of the interstate, but by the steady, measured turning of the seasons across the Iowa landscape.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Daisy Long Memorial Park (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 249° W
David Bates Memorial Park (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 271° W
C.F. Long Wildlife Woods (Local Conservation Area) — 2.5 mi, 267° W
C.F. Long Memorial Woods (Local Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 286° W
Pine Lake State Park (State Park) — 7.9 mi, 339° N
Eldora Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 8.0 mi, 330° NW
Civil War Statue (Public Artwork) — 8.4 mi, 325° NW
Grand Theatre (Cinema) — 8.4 mi, 326° NW
Fallen Rock State Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 10.1 mi, 340° N
Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 187° S
Weatherbee School Museum (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 161° S
Marshall County Historical Museum (Museum) — 15.5 mi, 161° S
Union Grove State Park (State Park) — 16.1 mi, 122° SE
Fridley Theatres Plaza 9 (Cinema) — 17.6 mi, 164° S
The Depot (Museum) — 18.6 mi, 205° SW
Ackley Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock (Monument) — 20.4 mi, 353° N
Union Depot (Museum) — 22.1 mi, 325° NW
Radcliffe Historical Museum (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 280° W
Iowa Falls Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 22.5 mi, 323° NW
Story City Carousel (Attraction) — 30.2 mi, 261° W
Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.4 mi, 130° SE · 24k acres
Acorn Music Hall (Theatre) — 34.4 mi, 245° SW
Octagon Center for the Arts (Gallery) — 35.1 mi, 243° SW
Ames City Auditorium (Theatre) — 35.3 mi, 243° SW
Elwood the Gnome (Attraction) — 36.8 mi, 242° SW
Overlook (Viewpoint) — 37.1 mi, 246° SW
Yuta Falls (Attraction) — 37.5 mi, 071° E
Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 47.7 mi, 196° S · 12k acres

Latest News: Whitten

Loading news…

World News

Loading news-world…

More World News