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2015 Map of Fredericksburg

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Fredericksburg
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Fredericksburg sits at the heart of this Chickasaw County landscape, where the agricultural grid is defined by a dense network of country roads including Co Hwy V48 and Co Hwy V56. The town's proximity to the East Fork Wapsipinicon River highlights the early importance of water resources in this Iowa prairie region. Several smaller waterways, such as Marsh Cr and Buck Cr, carve through the surrounding farmland, providing drainage for the productive fields that characterize the township boundaries of t95n r12w and t94n r11w.

For genealogists and local historians, the map provides precise locations for five distinct burial grounds: Rose Hill Cem, West Cem, Maple Grove Cem, Mentor Cem, and Zion Cem. These sites, alongside the transition between Chickasaw Co and Bremer Co, offer significant markers for tracing family homesteads and local heritage. Small water features like Split Rock Lake serve as unique landmarks within an otherwise uniform township-and-range survey system.