1954 Map of Ainsworth

About this map

Ainsworth serves as the focal point of this mid-century survey, shown as a structured prairie town along the Chicago and North Western railway. The map highlights the town's civic core, including the Courthouse, City Hall, and a central High School, surrounded by the wide agricultural expanse of the Ainsworth Table. Beyond the town limits, the landscape reveals a pattern of rural education and changing land use, evidenced by a network of numbered schoolhouses such as School No 55 and School No 20, alongside several sites already marked as abandoned by the 1950s.