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2010 Map of Belvue

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Belvue
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

The Kansas River flows broadly across this Pottawatomie County landscape, south of the established settlement of Belvue. This area is defined by its drainage systems, where Vermillion Creek and Rock Creek converge in the northwest, while southern reaches are fed by Little Wells Creek and Roberts Creek. The map provides significant detail for genealogists, documenting three distinct burial grounds: Belvue Cemetery, Saint Johns Cemetery, and Greenwood Cemetery.

Road names like Strowigs Mill Rd hint at the agrarian and industrial history of the region, while the grid of thoroughfares such as Paxico Rd and Turkey Creek Rd connects the scattered homesteads. The transition from the river bottomlands to the upland creeks like Lost Creek illustrates the environmental factors that shaped early Kansas development and transportation routes along the river corridor.