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1941 Map of Bado

Name: 1941 Topographic Map of Bado
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

Bado and the surrounding townships of Texas County appear here during a period of steady rural settlement within the Mark Twain National Forest. The landscape is defined by the winding course of the Big Piney River and the Piney River, where the terrain creates distinctive features like The Narrows. Small community centers such as Success, Bucyrus, and Ellis Prairie serve as anchors for a network of country schools and churches, including Timber Ridge Sch and Hickory Ridge Ch.

Evidence of local industry and infrastructure is visible in the presence of the Barium Mine near the southern edge of the survey and the Vada Lookout to the northeast. The distribution of family and community cemeteries, such as Lynch Cem and Old Concord Cem, alongside numerous hollows like Hungry Hollow and Opossum Hollow, provides a detailed record of the families who inhabited this portion of the Ozarks in the early 1940s.