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2015 Map of Hiawatha

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

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Hiawatha serves as the focal point of this Brown County landscape, showing its organized street grid and essential civic infrastructure. The town’s growth is anchored by its municipal airport to the north and the nearby Lake Hiawatha. Genealogical interest is found in several burial grounds, including Hiawatha Cem, Mount Hope Cem, and the more remote Claytonville Cem to the southeast.

South of the main settlement lies the community of Baker, situated near the confluence of local waterways. The terrain is defined by a dendritic drainage pattern where the N Fork Wolf River and Middle Fork Wolf River converge to form the primary Wolf River channel. To the southwest, the Little Delaware River carves through the township, illustrating the transition between the upland agricultural plats and the riparian corridors that historically dictated settlement patterns in northeast Kansas.