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2015 Map of Salina

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Salina
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Germanville and Salina anchor this agrarian landscape in Jefferson County, where the settlement patterns of early European immigrant communities are preserved in the dense concentration of denominational cemeteries. The map reveals a high degree of genealogical detail, specifically reflecting German and Swedish heritage through sites like Saint Peters and Pauls German Catholic Cem, the German Lutheran Cem, and several New Sweden burial grounds.

The terrain is defined by a dendritic network of waterways, including Walnut Creek, Brush Cr, and Turkey Cr, which dictate the placement of local roads like Salina Rd and Germanville Rd. Smaller family-named landmarks such as Chilcott Cem, Courtney Cem, and Hopkirk Cem are scattered across the township lines, providing specific points of interest for researchers tracing 19th and 20th-century family landholdings in the rural Iowa interior.