Montgomery County IA Archives History - Books .....County Map P. 2 1881
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Book Title: History Of Montgomery County Iowa, Containing A History Of The County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc.

THE COUNTY MAP

This map was specially prepared for this history of Montgomery county by Mr.
Elwood Cleaver, the county surveyor, who is one of the most careful,
conscientious and painstaking civil engineers in the country. Every road is
represented as the records show it to be, according to law, although it is known
that in many instances the actual track of travel is not now on the lawful line.
The city and town sites are all indicated according to their present legal
plats, some of their original plats having been wholly or partially vacated, and
some more or less increased. The streams are laid down as correctly as can be on
a map of this scale. The spots of brush and timber land are given according to
original field notes of United States survey, many of which, of course, are
different now. The county superintendent, Mr. J. A. McLean has very carefully
marked all school houses in the county, where they stand now, March 1, 1881.

NAMES OF STREAMS.

Indian Creek -- So named from some early Indian encampment on its banks.
Mormon Creek -- In Grant township. See page 449.
Nishnabotna -- See County Teacher's Association, correspondence, etc., on pages
395-96-97.
Nodawa -- See Judge Fulton's letter, pp. 396-97
Reid's Creek. -- In Douglas township; was named after Rev. Wm. T. Reid, the
pioneer preacher and first county superintendent of schools, who resided on its
banks. It has always been misspelled R-ee-d. [See his biography, page 562].
Seven-mile Creek -- So named because it was seven miles from where the old
"Mormon trail" road crossed it, to the Mormon encampment at Indiantown; and this
was an Indian village on the Nishnabotna, not far from where Lewis, the county
seat of Cass county, now stands.[See page 472.]
Sixteen-mile Creek -- Was named the same way and for the same reason as above,
but is now more properly called West Nodawa river.
Tarkio -- Said to be an Indian word, tar-ke-ho, for wild turkey; but no very
good authority was found for it. 
Walnut Creek -- So named from the abundance of black walnut trees originally
found along its course.

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