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2022 Map of Estherville

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Estherville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Estherville serves as the focal point of this northern Iowa landscape, situated along the winding course of the Des Moines River. The town's administrative and educational importance is grounded by the Emmet County Courthouse and the Iowa Lakes Community College Estherville Campus. To the north, the small settlement of Huntington sits near the Minnesota border, surrounded by a grid of agricultural section lines and drainage features like Eagle Lake and Ditch Number 79.

Genealogists will find a dense concentration of burial sites, including the Estherville Lutheran Cem, Norwegian Cem, and Saint Patrick's Catholic Cem, which reflect the community's ancestral heritage. The landscape is primarily defined by the river's valley and the infrastructure supporting it, from the Estherville Municipal Airport on the eastern edge to the numerous county roads and state highways that connect these rural prairie settlements.