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2022 Map of Adair South

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Adair South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Adair sits at the northern edge of this agricultural landscape, where the town's cemetery grounds, Saint Johns Cem and Sunnyhill Cem, overlook the rolling terrain of Guthrie and Adair counties. The map provides a detailed view of the sectional road grid that defines local movement, with routes such as Baltimore Rd and Chicago Rd tracing the high ground between drainage basins.

Water plays a central role in the topography, with the W Fork Middle Nodaway River and its tributaries, including Turkey Cr, cutting across the fields. To the southwest, Sevenmile Cr emerges, illustrating the headwater patterns that dictated early farmstead placement. The boundary between Cass Co and Adair Co is clearly marked, following the north-south section lines through a landscape largely devoted to rural land use and transport corridors like Independence Rd.