(Iowa) Sketch of The Public Surveys.. Novelties Dense with detail for terrain

Dense with detail for terrain

Matted together side by side

Surveying underway in the western part of the state

The Hour of High Water in Greenwich Time at New and Full Moon

from historic trading points

(Iowa) Sketch of The Public Surveys.. Novelties Dense with detail for terrainSketch of The Public Surveys In Iowa Territory Probably one of the earliest sketch maps for the territory with a very primitive approach to what is now the very southeastern corner of the state. With most of the area west of the Mississippi just labeled as part of Old Surveys, the grid of the survey is simple and just shows divided townships starting around Otumwa and stretching north just past Iowa City. Not far above Dubuque starts the Neutral