2013 Map of Edna

About this map

The small settlement of Edna sits in the southwestern corner of this Lyon County landscape, where Madison Ave meets the section lines. This 2013 survey illustrates the highly organized agricultural grid of northwest Iowa, defined by numbered streets and family-named avenues such as Ibex Ave and Jefferson Ave. While the terrain is dominated by these rectilinear property boundaries, natural drainage patterns like Tom Cr and Emery Cr meander through the fields, creating the only irregular breaks in the landscape. Further north, the name Midland appears along 120th St, marking another point of local significance in this rural township. The map serves as a precise record of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century land use, showing the endurance of the township-and-range system in defining the geography of the Midwest.