Special List 29: Iowa
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275. Sketch [map] of the Public Surveys in Iowa Territory. [n.d.]
1 inch to 18 miles. 12 x 9.5. Published. Status of public
land surveys. Includes explanation of colors and symbols used on
map. Filed as RG 46: 26th Cong., 1st sess., 38.
276. Sketch [map] of the Public Surveys in Iowa Territory. [n.d.]
1 inch to 18 miles. 12 x 9.5. Published. Status of public
land surveys. Explanation of colors and symbols used on map. This
map with additional annotation is in RG 49: Old Map File, Iowa,
2. Filed as RG 46: 26th Cong., 2d sess., 21.
277. Iowa [Territory] and Wisconsin. Chiefly from the Map of J.
N. Nicollet. Entered according to Act of Congress in the
year 1844, by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breese in the
Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York.
1 inch to ca. 50 miles. 14 x 18. Published. Indian trails,
Indian villages, counties, towns, and physical features. Iowa
Territory includes present State of Minnesota and parts of North
and South Dakota. "Cession treaty July 15, 1830," is written in
pencil in Sac and Fox area in Iowa Territory, but boundary lines
of cession are not shown clearly. Filed as Ref. Coll.: Iowa,
1844.
278. (B) [Sketch of] Public Surveys in Iowa 1850. [Issued by the
Surveyor General's Office, Dubuque, Nov. 1, 1850.]
1 inch to 18 miles. 19 x 24. Published. Status of public
land surveys. Filed as RG 49: Special Published, Iowa 2.
279. A Township Map of The State of Iowa Compiled from the United
States Surveys and personal reconnaissance showing the
Streams, Roads, Towns, County Seats, Works of Internal
Improvement, &c.&c. J. F. Abrahams, Publisher, Burlington,
Iowa, And By R. L. Barnes, Philadelphia . . . 1851. Friend &
Aub, Lith., Phila.
1 inch to ca. 20 miles. 20 x 32.5. Published. Counties (in
color), towns, military posts, townships, railroads, roads,
canals, and dams. Tables list population by county and of the
principal cities for 1850. Part of northern Iowa is missing on
map. Filed as RG 77: Q 27.
280. (No. 2.) Sketch of the Public Surveys in Iowa. [Issued by
Surveyor General's Office, Dubuque, Oct. 21, 1853.]
1 inch to 18 miles. 19 x 23. Published. Status of public
land surveys. Also available in RG 49: Old Map File, 6, with
annotation. Filed as RG 49: Special Published, Iowa 4.
281. (No. 2) Sketch [map] of the Public Surveys in Iowa. [Issued
by Surveyor General's Office, Dubuque, Oct. 21, 1854.]
1 inch to 18 miles. 19 x 23. Published. Shows status of
public land surveys. Filed as RG 49: Special Published, Iowa, 5.
282. (No. 2.) Sketch [map] of the Public Surveys in Iowa . . .
Surveyor General's Office, Dubuque, October 21st, 1855.
1 inch to 18 miles, 19 x 22. Annotated published. Shows
status of public land surveys. Also a third copy, which is not
annotated. Filed as RG 49: Old Map File, Iowa 9 & 10.
283. (No. 2) Sketch [map] of the Public Surveys in Iowa. [Issued
by Surveyor General's Office, Dubuque, Oct. 13, 1856.]
1 inch to 18 miles. 19.5 x 21. Published. Shows status of
public land surveys. Filed as RG 46: S. Ex. Doc. 5, 34th Cong.,
3d sess., 5.
284. A Sectional Map of Iowa, Compiled from the official Surveys
of the United States and the Public Records of the State &
Counties and from Personal Reconnaissance [sic]. By Henn,
Williams & Co. of Fairfield, Iowa. 1857. Published by Keen &
Lee, Chicago, Illinois. . . . Engraved by Theodore Leonhardt
from the direction of J. L. Hazzard.
1 inch to 6 miles. 4 sections, each 26.5 x 33.5. Annotated
published. Counties (in color), towns, roads, railroad lines,
public land surveys, and drainage features. Annotated to show
additional drainage features. Filed as RG 77: M 331-26.
285. Henn, Williams & Co's. Sectional Map of the State of Iowa,
Compiled from the Official Surveys of the United States and
the Public Records of the State and Counties & from Personal
Reconnaissance by Henn, Williams & Co., Fairfield, Iowa.
Published by W. B. Keen., Chicago, Ill. 1858. . . . Engraved
& printed by Ferd. Mayer & Co., New York.
1 inch to ca. 25 miles. 28.5 x 39. Published. Counties (in
color), towns, U.S. land offices, railroads, roads, and township
and section lines. Filed in Ref. Coll.: Iowa, 1858.
286. (No. 2.) Sketch [map] of the Public Surveys in Iowa and
Dakota. [Issued by Surveyor General's Office, Dubuque, Oct.
10, 1860.]
1 inch to 18 miles. 20 x 22.5. Annotated published. Shows
status of public land surveys. Only a very small area in the
present State of South Dakota is shown. Filed as RG 49: Old Map
File, Iowa, 12.
287. Diagram of the Public Surveys in Iowa. [Issued by the
General Land Office on Oct. 2, 1866.]
1 inch to ca. 20 miles. 18 x 20. Published. County
boundaries and mineral regions are shown in color. Also shows
public surveys, county names, locations of land offices, land-
grant railroads and their limits, towns, military posts, and
drainage. Pieces of map are missing. Filed as RG 49: Special
Published, Iowa 6.
288. [Map of the] State of Iowa. . . . 1878. Compiled from the
official Records of the General Land Office.
1 inch to 12 miles. 34 x 27. Published. County names and
boundaries, towns, principal railroad stations, public land
surveys, and railroad lines. Filed as RG 49: Standard Published,
Iowa, 1878.
289. [Map of the] State of Iowa. . . . 1885. Compiled from the
official Records of the General Land Office.
1 inch to 12 miles. 26.5 x 23.5. Published. County
boundaries in color. Also shows county names, public land
surveys, towns, principal railroad stations, railroad lines,
railroad land-grant limits, and physical features. Filed as RG
49: Standard Published, Iowa, 1885.
290. Railroad and Sectional Map of Iowa. Published by Warner &
Foote . . . Minneapolis, Minna. 1885.
1 inch to 15 miles. 16.5 x 25.5. Railroads, counties, towns,
and township and section lines. Note in pencil in lower right
margin states, "filed-July 27/85." Filed as RG 77: Q 531.
291. [Post route map of the State of Iowa showing post offices
with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation
Sept. 1907.]
1 inch to 6 miles. 2 sections, each 41.5 x 29. Annotated
manuscript. Mail service, counties, towns, railroads, and
physical features. Annotated to show additional post offices and
post routes. Southeastern part of the State is incomplete. Map
has no key. Date appears on reverse. Filed as RG 28: State Maps,
Iowa, 1907.
292. [Map of the] State of Iowa. Compiled from the official
Records of the General Land Office . . . 1917. . . .
Compiled and Drawn by Daniel O'Hare . . . Traced and
Lettered by George A. Daddy.
1 inch to 12 miles. 23 x 34.5. Published. County boundaries
in color. Also shows names of counties, public land surveys,
towns and cities, military reservations, railroad lines, and
physical features. Also a black and white base map for this date.
23 x 35. Filed as RG 49: Standard Published, Iowa, 1917.
293. [Map of Iowa issued by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1917.]
1 inch to ca. 16 miles. 24 x 17. Published. County names and
boundaries, towns and cities, township and range numbers, steam
and electric railroad lines, and drainage features. Filed as RG
57: Published State Maps, Iowa, 1917.
294. Post Route Map of the State of Iowa showing post offices
with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation
on the 1st of January, 1917.
1 inch to 7 miles. 35 x 51.5. Published. Frequency and types
of mail service, discontinued post offices, counties, towns,
railroads, physical features, and parts of adjoining States.
Filed as RG 28: State Maps, Iowa, 1917.
See also entries 247 in Illinois
and 851 in Wisconsin.
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