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1960 Map of Aberdeen East

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Aberdeen East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1961
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1961

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Aberdeen's growing eastern edge is defined by a dense concentration of civic and educational institutions, anchored by the Northern State Teachers College and the S Dak School for the Blind. The 1960 landscape shows the city expanding toward the Aberdeen Municipal Airport, while maintaining established neighborhood centers like Melgaard Park and the County Fairground.

South and east of the city limits, the terrain transitions into the wide drainage basins of Moccasin Creek and Foot Creek. In this rural expanse, researchers can find isolated rural schoolhouses like Elder Grove Sch and Plainview Sch, along with the small settlement of Nahon. The infrastructure is heavily influenced by a converging network of three major railroads: the Chicago and North Western, the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific, and the Great Northern, which shaped the town's industrial and residential layout.