2018 Map of Masonville

About this map

Masonville serves as the primary settlement hub on this part of the Buchanan and Delaware County line. The landscape is defined by the headwaters and meandering courses of several local waterways, including Prairie Creek which flows near the town and Silver Creek winding through the southwestern sections. Remnants of early transportation routes are visible in the path of Early Stagecoach Rd in the northeastern corner, providing a link to the nineteenth-century movement of people and mail across the Iowa prairie. Several burial grounds, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Saint Mary Cemetery, and Sand Creek Cemetery, are distributed throughout the townships, offering critical points of interest for genealogists tracing family histories in these rural agricultural districts. The rectilinear road grid, marked by numbered streets from 200th St to 285th St, illustrates the enduring influence of the Public Land Survey System on the modern Iowa landscape.