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2018 Map of Vinton

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Vinton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

Vinton serves as the central hub of this Benton County landscape, situated along a prominent bend in the Cedar River. The town's grid is well-established, flanked by several long-standing burial grounds including Evergreen Cem to the east and Maplewood Cem and Saint Marys Cem to the west. The river corridor is a defining feature of the area, punctuated by Barnets Island and the Barnets Cutoff, which illustrate the shifting nature of the local hydrology. North of the city, the Vinton Veterans Memorial Airpark occupies a wide terrace above the river valley.

The surrounding countryside is dissected by a network of drainage systems, with Pratt Cr and Bear Cr flowing from the north, while Hinkle Cr and Prairie Cr converge near the town center. Local history is preserved in the rural Greenwall Cem to the northwest, while the township boundaries of t86n r10w and t85n r10w provide a framework for the rural agricultural tracts and county routes that connect the outlying homesteads to the river city.