Buchanan County, Iowa, United States

Details for Buchanan County

Name

Buchanan County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Buchanan (Cass Township, Cedar County)

Coordinates

Latitude		42.4666532		42° 27' 60" N
Longitude		-91.8501706		91° 51' 00.6" W

Population

20,844

Elevation

295 m

Surrounding Counties

Fayette N
Clayton NE
Delaware E
Linn SE
Benton S
Black Hawk W
Bremer NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465199

Histopolis Place ID

941649234

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Buchanan County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=556 (25 Aug 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Buchanan County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Buchanan County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Buchanan/ (11 Jul 2010)

Buchanan County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Buchanan County, Iowa IA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7192 (13 Nov 2008)

Buchanan County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchanan_County,_Iowa (7 Aug 2010)

Buchanan County [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/buchanan/buchanan.htm (17 Jan 2010)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Buchanan County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/buchanancounty.html (27 Jan 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Buchanan County, Iowa [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/BU.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Buchanan County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7192&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (9 Dec 2008)

Buchanan County, Iowa Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Buchanan County, Iowa
http://www.interment.net/us/ia/buchanan.htm (16 May 2010)

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Surveys in Buchanan County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 16 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Buchanan County. You can navigate to any of the 16 survey townships that overlap Buchanan County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Buchanan County

16 Townships

Buffalo	Byron	Cono	Fairbank
Fremont	Hazleton	Homer	Jefferson
Liberty	Madison	Middlefield	Newton
Perry	Sumner	Washington	Westburg

Cities of Buchanan County

11 Cities, 14 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Aurora (city)	Ben Haven Mobile Home Park	Brandon (city)	Bryantsburg
Doris	Fairbank (city)	Gatesville	Hamerville
Hazleton (city)	Independence (city)	Jesup (city)	Lamont (city)
Littleton	Midway Trailer Court	Monti	North Street Mobile Home Park
Otterville	Pine Ridge Mobile Home Court	Quasqueton (city)	Rowley (city)
Shady Grove	Stanley (city)	Vista	Winthrop (city)
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Cemeteries of Buchanan County

40 Cemeteries, 7 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Amish	Bear Creek School	Byron	Campton
Cedar Crest	Circle Grove	Clayton	Fairview
First	Floral Hills Memorial Gardens	Fontana	Fremont
German Catholic	Hazleton	Hickory Grove	Jefferson Township
Kint	Littleton	Madison	Mount Hope
Mt. Hope (*)	North Amish	Oakwood	Otterville
Payne	Pine Creek	Quasqueton	Rowley
Saint Athanasius	Saint Johns	Saint Marys	Saint Michaels
Saint Patricks (Liberty Township)	Saint Patricks (Newton Township)	Shady Grove (historical cemetery)	Spangler
St. Athanasius (*)	St. Johns (*)	St. Marys (*)	St. Michaels (*)
St. Patricks (* Liberty Township)	St. Patricks (* Newton Township)	Stanley	State Hospital
Union	Upper Spring Grove	Wilson

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