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2015 Map of Buffalo Center

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Buffalo Center
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

The town of Buffalo Center anchors the southern portion of this northern Iowa survey, situated along the border of Kossuth and Winnebago counties. The landscape is defined by the highly managed waterways necessary for prairie agriculture, including the channelized Middle Br Blue Earth River and engineered systems such as Drainage Ditch Number 21 and Drainage Ditch Number 64. These drainage networks reflect the conversion of the Iowa-Minnesota borderlands into a productive agricultural grid.

Further north, the community of Rake sits near the state line, surrounded by several rural burial grounds that serve as focal points for local genealogy. Genealogists can locate several named sites including Graceland Cem, Olena Mound Cem, and the Lincoln Township Cem. To the north of Rake, the West Lutheran Cem and East Lutheran Cem provide specific markers of the area's denominational history and settlement patterns during the twenty-first century.