2015 Map of Ledyard

About this map

The town of Ledyard anchors this northern Iowa landscape, a community defined by its rigid section-line roads and its relationship with the drainage of the upper Midwest. To the south lies the small settlement of Gerled, situated along Highway 9. The terrain is marked by the winding courses of the West Br Blue Earth River and the W Br Blue Earth River, which cut across the geometric grid of 110th through 170th Avenues. For those researching local history, the map identifies key community sites such as Highland Home Cem and Sacred Heart Cem. The presence of the Union Slough Ditch and Drainage Ditch Number 80 illustrates the extensive engineering required to manage the wetlands and prairies of Kossuth County for agricultural productivity, a process that transformed the natural hydrology into the managed system seen here in the mid-2010s.