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1968 Map of Lafayette

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Lafayette
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

About this map

The small unincorporated community of Lafayette serves as the central focal point of this 1968 Linn County survey, positioned near the confluence of local tributaries. The landscape is defined by the winding paths of West Otter Creek and East Otter Creek, which divide the townships of Grant, Spring Grove, Washington, and Otter Creek. The rural character of the era is evidenced by a high density of local burial grounds and religious sites, including West Prairie Cem, Oliphant Cem, and Salem Ch.

Infrastructure in the late 1960s was dominated by the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad corridor cutting through the southwestern corner, paralleled by the old Waterloo road. This map also preserves the location of Alice, a small settlement featuring its own Alice Ch, Alice Cem, and several nearby gravel pits, illustrating the intersection of family-farm life and small-scale resource extraction in mid-century Iowa.