1885 State Census of Iowa, Madison County STATUS of the files on-line for this census in the following FTP directory: http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ia/madison/1885/ ==================================================================================== STATUS TOWNSHIP/TOWN DESCRIPTION PAGE#-RANGE ==================================================================================== On-Line Winterset South Ward (Center Twp) 3-46 On-Line Winterset North Ward (Center Twp) 51-88 On-Line Center Township 93- On-Line Grand River Township 99-113 On-Line Jackson Township 117-142 On-Line Jefferson Township 160-187 On-Line Lee Township 209-222 and 192-198 On-Line Lincoln Township 226-257 On-Line Earlham Town (Madison Twp) 262-271 On-Line Monroe Township 280-305 On-Line Penn Township 312-342 On-Line Scott Township 347-381 On-Line South Township 389-436 On-Line St. Charles Town (South Twp) 441-449 On-Line Union Township 459-486 On-Line Walnut Township 499-529 On-Line Webster Township 533-559 ==================================================================================== Missing Townships The following townships are missing from this transcription: Crawford, Douglas, Madison (except for the town of Earlham), Ohio The Iowa Historical Library, keeper of the original documents, has confirmed that these townships are missing from the bound book of 1885 Madison County and has no explanation for their absence. Since the bound book has consecutively numbered pages, it appears that the missing documents were never submitted to the state for binding and archiving. ==================================================================================== This Census was transcribed by Kent G. Transier and proofread by Judy Wight Branson Submitted to the USGenWeb Census Project http://www.us-census.org/ ====================================================================================