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2018 Map of West Liberty

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

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

West Liberty sits at the intersection of several municipal boundaries, where the corners of Johnson, Cedar, and Muscatine counties meet in eastern Iowa. The area is defined by its agrarian grid and the winding course of Wapsinonoc Creek, which flows southward toward the Big Slough and engineered watercourses like Goshen Ditch and Wales Ditch. These drainage systems reveal the midwestern landscape’s transformation to support intensive cultivation.

Genealogists will find a high density of burial sites across the township lines, including Oak Ridge Cem, Mount Calvary Cem, and the denominational or geographically named North Prairie Cem and South Prairie Cem. To the northwest, the small settlement of Downey remains a quiet node in this fertile corridor, preserved here as it appeared in the late 2010s before further suburban or industrial expansion.