2022 Map of Saint Joseph

About this map

St. Joseph anchors this northern Iowa landscape, situated just north of the Kossuth and Humboldt County line. The map reveals a highly engineered agricultural environment where the meandering course of the East Fork Des Moines River and its tributary, Lotts Creek, are supplemented by an extensive network of man-made waterways. These features, including Drainage Ditch Number 116, Drainage Ditch Number 182, and Drainage Ditch Number 8, underscore the mid-20th-century effort to drain and manage the prairie wetlands for intensive farming.