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2011 Map of Collins NW

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Collins NW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

Old Union Cemetery and Mount Zion Cemetery are central landmarks in this rural corner of Drew County, where a network of gravel and county roads crisscross a landscape defined by significant prairie clearings and meandering waterways. The topography is shaped by the parallel courses of Upper Cutoff Creek and Lower Cutoff Creek, which flow through a region punctuated by broad, named meadows like Cooper Prairie and Tiffin Prairie.

Infrastructure in this area is predominantly agricultural and local, represented by routes such as Florence Rd and Jose Chapel Rd. Water management is visible at Byrd Lake, where the Byrd Lake Dam regulates flow within the local drainage basin. Genealogists will find interest in the scattered burial grounds, including Mount Tabor Cemetery and Piney Cemetery, which serve as quiet markers of the families who settled this timber and prairie land north of the Monticello area.