Lyon County, Iowa, United States

Details for Lyon County

Name

Lyon County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Rock Rapids (Rock Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		43.3833082		43° 22' 59.9" N
Longitude		-96.2508609		96° 15' 03.1" W

Population

11,952

Elevation

438 m

Surrounding Counties

Rock (Minnesota) N
Nobles (Minnesota) NE
Osceola E
O'Brien County SE
Sioux S
Lincoln (South Dakota) W
Minnehaha (South Dakota) NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465248

Histopolis Place ID

707043000

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Lyon County

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

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

Lyon County Iowa Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/lyon/cemetery.html (4 Oct 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Lyon County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Lyon County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Lyon/ (23 Jun 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Lyon 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/LY.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=606 (25 Aug 2009)

Lyon County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_County,_Iowa (4 Aug 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Lyon County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7471&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (10 Dec 2008)

Lyon County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Lyon 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=7471 (13 Nov 2008)

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Surveys in Lyon County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 16 Townships

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

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Townships of Lyon County

18 Townships

Allison	Centennial	Cleveland	Dale
Doon	Elgin	Garfield	Grant
Larchwood	Liberal	Logan	Lyon
Midland	Richland	Riverside	Rock
Sioux	Wheeler

Cities of Lyon County

8 Cities, 8 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Alvord	Beloit (u.p.)	Doon	Edna (u.p.)
Elm Spring (u.p.)	George	Granite (u.p.)	Inwood
Klondike (u.p.)	Lakewood (historical u.p.)	Lakewood Corner (u.p.)	Larchwood
Lester	Little Rock	Midland (u.p.)	Rock Rapids

Cemeteries of Lyon County

24 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Apostolic Christian	Beloit	Bethlehem	Evergreen
First Baptist Church	Garfield Township	Grandview	Grant Township
Hillside (Doon Township)	Hillside (Larchwood Township)	Holy Name	Hope Reformed Church
Larchwood	Lyon County First Presbyterian Church	Our Saviors Lutheran	Pleasant View
Quaker	Richland	Riverside	Saint Marys (Doon Township)
Saint Marys (Larchwood, Larchwood Township)	St. Marys (* Doon Township)	St. Marys (* Larchwood, Larchwood Township)	Zion (Dale Township)
Zion (Liberal Township)	Zoar Presbyterian Church

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