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2013 Map of Britt

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of Britt
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

The town of Britt serves as the focal point of this Hancock County landscape, where the local street grid is interrupted by the prominent angling path of Diagonal St. On the southern edge of town, the Hancock County Fairgrounds and the Hancock County Speedway mark the intersection of community life and regional recreation. Further south, the map reveals the small settlement of Laconia, situated near where the land begins to drain toward the various branches of the regional river systems.

Water defines the rural stretches of this quadrangle, as the headwaters of the Boone River complex emerge from the prairie. The Middle Br Boone River and E Br Boone River meander through a strictly partitioned agricultural grid defined by roads like James Ave and 200th St. To the east, the drainage shifts toward the W Br Iowa River, illustrating the subtle topographic divide that separates these central Iowa watersheds.