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1951 Map of Anselmo SW

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Anselmo SW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1952
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1952

About this map

Sand Hayes Valley and the surrounding high plains of Custer County are defined by a sparse but deliberate network of rural institutions in the early 1950s. The landscape is organized into distinct locales such as Victoria, Cliff, and Ortello, where the social fabric of the Nebraska prairie is anchored by small country schools. Educational sites like Phillips Sch, Delmont Sch, and Ortello Sch are distributed across the township lines to serve isolated farmsteads.

A concentrated community center appears near the Ortello- Kilfoil boundary, where the Ortello Chapel and Ortello Cem stand as significant landmarks for genealogists and local historians. The topography transitions from the low-lying valley floor to the prominent West Table in the south. This survey was conducted as part of the Department of the Interior's development program for the Missouri River Basin, capturing the area's infrastructure before significant modern consolidation.