2018 Map of Plover

About this map

The town of Plover anchors the southwestern corner of this survey, where the grid of rural roads meets the county line between Palo Alto and Pocahontas Counties. This landscape is defined by the extensive drainage network supporting local agriculture, including Ditch Number 123, Ditch Number 48, and Ditch Number 17, which feed into natural watercourses like Cylinder Creek and Beaver Cr. In the east, the Des Moines River carves a winding path through the prairie, its banks marked by the Riverside Cem. Several other burial grounds, including Lincoln Cem and Ellington Cem, provide specific points of interest for genealogists tracing early families in these rural townships. The map documents a meticulously surveyed section of Iowa, showing the relationship between small-town settlement and the engineering of the surrounding watershed.