2014 Map of Colon

About this map

Colon serves as the central hub for this Saunders County landscape, appearing here in the early 21st century as a quiet crossroads community. The village is surrounded by a strictly organized grid of rural roads, including Colon Rd and numerous numeric and lettered routes like Co Road 16 and Co Road Q. The map reveals a deeply rooted rural heritage through its distribution of community burial grounds, such as Union Cem to the northwest and Platteville Cem to the northeast. Several watercourses, including Silver Cr and Otoe Cr, cut through the geometric survey lines, while Marietta Cem and Green Mound Cem provide further evidence of early settlement patterns in this agricultural heartland.