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1981 Map of Lamoni North

Name: 1981 Topographic Map of Lamoni North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

Lamoni serves as the southern anchor of this southern Iowa landscape, where the town’s northern reaches give way to the rolling drainage basins of the Grand River and Thompson River. The map captures a transition from town to timbered river breaks, punctuated by a deep rural network of cemeteries and small church congregations. Notable landmarks include Terre Haute and the settlement at Tuskeego, alongside several family-named burial grounds like Lillie Cem and Cash Cem.

Infrastructure from an earlier era is visible in the Old Railroad Grade cutting north through the center of the sheet, tracing a path toward Bloomington Ch. The area's hydrology is dominated by a complex web of waterways, including Brush Creek, Elk Creek, and Lake Shane. From the Waterworks at the edge of town to the isolated Quarry sites along the river bluffs, the map provides a look at the mid-twentieth-century agricultural and industrial character of Decatur County.