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1984 Map of Fountain Grove

Name: 1984 Topographic Map of Fountain Grove
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1985
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1985

About this map

Fountain Grove and the surrounding river bottomlands define this portion of north-central Missouri during the mid-1980s. The landscape is dominated by the confluence of major waterways and the expansive Fountain Grove State Wildlife Area, which preserves a vast system of levees and wetlands along the Grand River and Locust Creek. This map illustrates a complex hydraulic environment where natural oxbows and managed water bodies like Jacks Lake and Hog Lake sit adjacent to active agricultural fields.

Transportation corridors provide a structural backbone to the region, with the Norfolk and Western and Burlington Northern railroads cutting across the floodplains. Smaller settlements such as Bedford and Towstring appear as quiet clusters of activity connected by improved and unimproved roads. The survey also carefully documents the tri-county junction of Livingston, Linn, and Chariton counties, tracing the political boundaries as they weave through the bottomlands.