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2013 Map of Tipton East

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of Tipton East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

Tipton serves as the primary anchor for this rural Cedar County landscape, where the town's eastern residential streets and thoroughfares like Park Rd and Plum St transition into an expansive agricultural grid. The map reveals a network of homestead-connected roads, including the historically named Old Muscatine Rd and Red Star Rd, which navigate the gentle drainage of Sugar Creek and Rock Creek. Small named locales such as York Prairie, Gessford, and Roselle are dispersed among the section lines, representing the enduring rural settlement pattern of the Iowa interior.

The terrain is defined by the subtle movement of local waterways like Lizard Creek, which break the geometric precision of the township and range system. Researchers can trace the layout of early 21st-century rural infrastructure through the dense numbering of local roads like 150th St and 230th St, which facilitate access to the surrounding farmsteads and agricultural plots that define the region's economy.