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1991 Map of Belton

Name: 1991 Topographic Map of Belton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1996
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1996

About this map

The Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport anchors the landscape of the Missouri-Kansas borderlands in the early 1990s, illustrating the heavy industrial and aviation presence south of Kansas City. This topographic survey captures the meeting of three major counties — Jackson, Cass, and Johnson — as suburban growth begins to encroach on rural terrain. The transition is evident in the dense street grids of Belton compared to the smaller, more isolated settlements of Kenneth, Belvidere, and Jaudon.

Genealogists can trace local burials at Woodland Cem, Bryant Cem, and Belton Cem, while the inclusion of the Knoche Oil Field and a local Quarry indicates the extraction economy that persisted alongside residential expansion. The presence of multiple airstrips, including Hillside Airport and Vilhauer Airport, underscores the region's historical reliance on private and memorial aviation infrastructure during this era.