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2010 Map of Castana

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Castana
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

The Maple River valley and the Little Sioux River corridor define the rural landscape of Monona County in the early twenty-first century. This western Iowa region is anchored by the small settlement of Castana, where the Castana Post Office serves the community near the banks of the river. To the southwest, the town of Turin sits at the junction of Larpenteur Memorial Rd and Nutmeg Ave, with its own Turin Post Office marking the village center.

Genealogists will find significant local history preserved in several rural burial grounds, including Belvidere Cemetery, Bisbee Cemetery, and Kennebec Cemetery. The topography is marked by distinctive named features such as Durr Hill and Granger Hill, along with several hollows like Nutt Hollow and Dutch Hollow that cut through the loess hills terrain. Smaller communities like Arcola and Belvidere further illustrate the distribution of early settlements across this agricultural landscape.