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2010 Map of Varina

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Varina
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

Varina sits at the heart of this Pocahontas County landscape, a community defined by its grid of rural roads and agricultural heritage. The town center is marked by the Varina Post Office, serving as a focal point for the surrounding farmsteads. The surveying reveals a classic Iowa section-line grid, where routes like Hwy 3 and numerous numbered avenues, such as 240th Ave, partition the prairie into a disciplined network of homesteads and fields.

Water and memory are preserved in the drainage of Little Cedar Creek, which winds southward toward the marshy basins of Sunken Island Lake and the northern Clear Lake. For local historians and genealogists, the map provides precise locations for the Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery and Varina Cemetery, documenting the long-standing family foundations of this prairie township at the start of the 21st century.