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2010 Map of Keota

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Keota
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

Keota serves as the primary hub of this eastern Iowa landscape, centered around the Keota Post Office and a grid of rural avenues. The surrounding countryside is defined by a dense network of family and community burial grounds, such as Saint Marys Cemetery and Keota Cemetery to the north, and Talleyrand Cemetery further south near the settlement of Talleyrand. These sites, along with others like Middleton Cemetery and Shockley Cemetery, indicate a well-established pattern of small rural clusters and church-centered communities.

Waterways like Dutch Creek and the Skunk River cut through the agricultural sections, while distinctive local place names like Hoot Owl Hollow add character to the topography. The map detail follows the transition from the town center out to smaller locales like Valley and Talleyrand, showing the persistent importance of regional corridors like the Keokuk-Washington Rd in connecting these disparate points of Keokuk County.