Beacon
Beacon is a city in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. The population was 445 at the 2020 census. Beacon has about 445 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 445 residents
- Description: human settlement in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States of America
- Also known as: “Beacon, IA” and “Beacon, Iowa”
- Postal code: 52534
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oskaloosa Public Library.
Oskaloosa Public Library
Library
Photo: JFaulkner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oskaloosa Public Library is a facility located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. Construction of the library was launched in 1902 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Oskaloosa Public Library is situated 2 miles northeast of Beacon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oskaloosa and University Park.
Oskaloosa
Town
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. census. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. Oskaloosa is situated 2½ miles northeast of Beacon.
University Park
Village
University Park is a city in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. The population was 487 at the 2020 census. University Park is situated 3½ miles east of Beacon.
Beacon
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Garfield Township, Mahaska, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.27648° or 41° 16′ 35″ northLongitude
-92.68152° or 92° 40′ 54″ westPopulation
445Elevation
758 feet (231 metres)United Nations Location Code
US B4EOpen location code
86H978G9+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 151332668OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Beacon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بياكون”
- Basque: “Beacon”
- Catalan: “Beacon”
- Cebuano: “Beacon”
- Chechen: “Бикен”
- Chinese: “Beacon”
- Chinese: “比康”
- Danish: “Beacon”
- Dutch: “Beacon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بياكون”
- French: “Beacon”
- Georgian: “ბიკონი”
- German: “Beacon”
- Gilaki: “بیکن (آیؤوا)”
- Gilaki: “بیکن”
- Haitian: “Beacon, Iowa”
- Haitian: “Beacon”
- Ido: “Beacon, Iowa”
- Ido: “Beacon”
- Irish: “Beacon”
- Italian: “Beacon”
- Kazakh: “Bïkon”
- Kazakh: “Бикон”
- Kazakh: “بىيكون”
- Kirghiz: “Бикон”
- Ladin: “Beacon”
- Malagasy: “Beacon, Iowa”
- Malagasy: “Beacon”
- Mazanderani: “بیکون (آیووا)”
- Mazanderani: “بیکون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Beacon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beacon”
- Norwegian: “Beacon”
- Persian: “بیکون، آیووا”
- Persian: “بیکون”
- Polish: “Beacon”
- Portuguese: “Beacon”
- Serbian: “Beacon”
- Serbian: “Бикон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beacon, Iowa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beacon”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیکون، آیووا”
- Spanish: “Beacon”
- Swedish: “Beacon, Iowa”
- Swedish: “Beacon”
- Tatar: “Бикен”
- Ukrainian: “Бікен”
- Urdu: “بیکن، آئیووا”
- Urdu: “بیکن”
- Uzbek: “Beacon”
- Uzbek: “Беаcон”
- Vietnamese: “Beacon, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Beacon”
- Volapük: “Beacon”
- Welsh: “Beacon, Iowa”
- Welsh: “Beacon”
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