2012 Map of De Kalb

About this map

De Kalb sits at the heart of this Buchanan County landscape, serving as a central hub for a network of rural roads and agricultural drainage. The area is defined by the branching tributaries of Sugar Creek, including Little Sugar Creek and South Sugar Creek, which carve through the terrain. For family historians, the sheet is exceptionally dense with burial sites, preserving the locations of West Lawn Cemetery, Kerlin Cemetery, Jones Cemetery, and Alexander Cemetery, among several others. These sites, often situated near original family homesteads or crossroad junctions like Mock Corner, provide a detailed record of the community's ancestral footprint. Evidence of modern land use appears in features like the Landing Strip west of town, while the surrounding grid of roads like SW Old N Rd and Fairview Rd maintains the traditional section-line boundaries established in the nineteenth century.