2010 Map of Burt

About this map

The town of Burt serves as the focal point of this rural northern Iowa landscape, where a geometric grid of section roads meets the winding course of the East Fork Des Moines River. In the mid-2000s, the community layout remains centered around the Burt Post Office, while the surrounding countryside is defined by agricultural drainage systems like Drainage Ditch No 69 and several water management features, including the Buffalo Creek Game Management Dam. Genealogy researchers will find several well-established burial grounds documented here, such as the Burt Township Cemetery, Portland Cemetery, and Plum Creek Cemetery. The river corridor is notable for its numerous oxbows and pools, such as Smith Pool and Lowe Pool, reflecting a hydrologic pattern of low-relief prairie streams that often fluctuate between marshes and open water, further managed by the Oak Lake Dam near the southern boundary.