2016 Map of Fowler

About this map

Fowler serves as the focal point of this Benton County landscape, where the grid of the town center transitions into a vast agricultural network of section lines and drainage ditches. The map illustrates a series of small rural communities and railroad stops including Swanington, Chase, and Fargo, which are connected by a diagonal transport corridor cutting across the prairie. The importance of local genealogy is highlighted by several family and town burial grounds, such as Perigo Cem, Oxford Cem, and Boswell Cem, which provide specific points of interest for historical research. Water management is a defining characteristic of the terrain, with features like Humbert Ditch, Wattles Ditch, and Seamans Ditch carefully engineered to support the surrounding farmland, while natural watercourses like Mud Pine Creek wind through the southern sections near Oxford.