Two months later than expected, the official state transportation map is available through iowadotmaps.com. Changes are minimal, but Tama County had a few of them.
- The Iowa Juvenile Home is no longer marked.
- The Tama-Toledo “urban area” is no longer extant (no yellow area).
- T69 north of D65 is marked as paved, although it’s hard to tell because the lettering itself takes up most of the line. So is A26 in Allamakee County.
- IA 152, IA 370, and old US 34 to Plattsmouth are now county roads.
- IA 92 is rerouted around Muscatine both on the main map and inset.
- N64 to Athelstan in Taylor County, long marked as paved and marked as bituminous in a 1997 county map, is gravel. The road itself been gravel since at least fall 2009, as seen on Google Street View. It’s very possible this was a reversion in the 2000s, after the community disincorporated.
- Speaking of disincorporation, Millville’s new status is so reflected.
- One piece of the past hanging around: Old IA 60 at the Minnesota state line still appears as a black line, although the road literally was obliterated after completion of the four-lane.
The state will be switching to an every-two-years pattern on paper maps. This KCRG story leads me to think that 2015 is the first two-year printed map. (That may also explain the delay.) Printing maps in odd-numbered years would best sync with changes in the governor’s office.