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1953 Map of Lowden

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Lowden
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

The town of Lowden serves as the focal point of this Eastern Iowa landscape, situated along the vital corridor of the Chicago And North Western railroad. This survey, based on 1950s aerial photography with late 1970s revisions, illustrates a deeply rooted agricultural community defined by its township boundaries and rural educational network. The distribution of several one-room schoolhouses, including School No 1, Red Oak School, and the Hickey School (Abandoned) in Massillon township, reflects a pre-consolidation rural life.

Genealogists and local historians will find significant value in the numerous burial grounds documented across the townships of Springfield, Spring Rock, and Inland, ranging from the Lowden Cemetery to the aptly named Pioneer Cemetery. The terrain is drained by several meandering watercourses such as Yankee Run, Lizard Creek, and Rock Creek, which dictate the placement of local farmsteads and infrastructure like the southern Power station.