Loading map...

1914 Map of Ames

Name: 1914 Topographic Map of Ames
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1914
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1914

About this map

Ames serves as the hub of this Central Iowa landscape, dominated by the campus of Iowa State College and the confluence of Squaw Creek and the Skunk River. The rail network defines the era's commerce, with the Chicago and Northwestern and the Minneapolis and St Louis lines threading through rural townships to connect settlements like Story City, Gilbert, and Roland.

For genealogists and local historians, the sheet is exceptionally dense with rural education markers, naming dozens of district facilities such as Tjernagel School, McFarland School, and Zenoirville School. The agricultural character of the region is evident in the drainage patterns of Keigley Branch and Onion Creek, while small communities like Bloomington and Ontario appear before mid-century expansion altered the township borders of Lafayette and Franklin.