The Boone River meanders through the eastern section of this landscape, defining a corridor of natural terrain amidst a strictly organized agricultural grid. This area, located near the settlement of Newark, showcases the extensive water management systems essential to Iowa farming, with numerous engineered waterways such as Ditch Number 49, Ditch Number 13, and the multi-segment Lateral Number 1. These features illustrate how the prairie was systematically drained and partitioned for high-yield agriculture during the twentieth century.
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1923 · Lehigh
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1923 · Fort Dodge
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1954 · Waterloo
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1954 · Fort Dodge
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1955 · Waterloo
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1957 · Fort Dodge
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · Fort Dodge
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1965 · Evanston
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1978 · Holmes
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1978 · Woolstock
USGS Topo · 1:24,000