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1958 Map of Big Bend City

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Big Bend City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1959
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1959

About this map

The winding Chippewa River serves as the focal point for this 1950s survey of the border between Swift and Chippewa Counties. This agricultural landscape is defined by its rural infrastructure, featuring a dense network of numbered schoolhouses such as School No 2237, School No 2234, and School No 297 distributed across the prairie townships of West Bank and Edison. The settlement of Big Bend City anchors the southeast, positioned near the river's deep oxbows and the smaller community of Hagan.

Evidence of local industry and social centers appears in the form of several Gravel Pits and the West Bank Ch near the eastern boundary. The presence of Cottonwood Creek feeding into the main river channel illustrates the drainage patterns of this flat, water-rich terrain. For researchers, the map provides a precise look at the mid-century placement of township schools and remote rural residences before the consolidation of school districts transformed the local landscape.