1980 Map of Bedford SW

About this map

The undulating terrain of the Iowa-Missouri borderlands defines this 1980 survey, where rural life is anchored by family-named landmarks and country congregations. Settlers and their descendants established numerous burial grounds across these townships, including the Township Cem and Forest Grove Cem in the north, while the Berea Ch stands as a focal point for the Ross community. The landscape is deeply dissected by a network of waterways like Honey Creek and Mozingo Creek, which dictate the placement of roads and farmsteads. These drainage patterns influenced the jurisdictional boundaries where Taylor Co, Nodaway Co, and Worth Co meet at the state line. Genealogists will find particular value in the distribution of smaller family and community plots such as Kemery Cem, New Hope Cem, and Luteston Cem, which remain as persistent markers of nineteenth-century settlement patterns amidst the active agricultural fields of the late twentieth century.