1894 Map of Oxford

About this map

Oxford stands as the primary rail hub of this late 19th-century Iowa landscape, situated at the junction of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and local waterways. The map reveals a highly structured agricultural grid, where townships like Hardin, York, and Greene are dissected by a network of drainage systems. The water table is central to the area's layout, with Old Mans Creek and the North English River carving through the terrain alongside smaller tributaries like Deer Creek and Teener Creek. To the east, the small settlement of Windham provides a secondary point of community life. This survey, conducted under the direction of Henry Gannett and W. J. Peters, preserves the specific nineteenth-century property and transportation corridors before the heavy modernization of the rural Midwest, including the western path of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad through Fillmore.