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2022 Map of Belle Plaine SW

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

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Holiday Lake serves as a focal point for this section of eastern Poweshiek County, where the irregular shoreline and residential street network of Aurora Drive and Lakeshore Drive contrast with the surrounding agricultural grid. The landscape is defined by the drainage of Big Bear Creek and several smaller tributaries like Stony Creek and Rock Creek that cut through the undulating terrain of the southern Iowa drift plain.

Genealogists and local historians can locate the Squires Cemetery in the north and Kent Cemetery further south, situated near Kent Church Road. In the southernmost portion of the map, the northern outskirts of Brooklyn appear along the banks of Big Bear Creek. The boundary between Tama County and Poweshiek County follows 400th Street, marking a significant political division in this rural landscape.