Elberon serves as the primary settlement on this landscape, its grid of streets including Railway St, 1st St, and 2nd St situated just north of Wolf Cr. The surrounding terrain is a mosaic of agricultural sections defined by a rigid section-line road network. Scattered throughout the rural landscape are smaller nodes of community history, such as the settlement of Walthom and several family-named burial grounds. Genealogists can identify the locations of Houghton Cem, Lamprecht Cem, and Twogood Cem, which are preserved within the farm fields. The drainage patterns are dominated by the winding paths of Salt Creek and its tributaries, including E Br Salt Cr and Stein Cr, which break the geometric regularity of the county roads and townships.
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1954 · Waterloo
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1954 · Des Moines
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1955 · Waterloo
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1956 · Des Moines
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1957 · Des Moines
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1965 · Keystone South
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1968 · Belle Plaine
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1968 · Chelsea
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1969 · Des Moines
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1971 · Elberon
USGS Topo · 1:24,000