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1970 Map of Blair

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Blair
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1983
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1983

About this map

Blair serves as the focal point of this Washington County survey, showing a landscape defined by the transition from upland ridges to the flat Missouri River bottomlands. The city's institutional identity is anchored by Dana College and a concentrated civic core containing the Courthouse, City Hall, and the Post Office. To the north, the small settlement of Cuming City and the nearby Cuming City Cem mark an earlier layer of local history.

Transport and water management shape the eastern reaches, where the Chicago and North Western rail line skirts the edge of the bluffs. The engineering of the valley is evident in the Cameron Levee and Cameron Ditch, protecting the lowlands from the winding courses of the North Fork Big Papillion Creek and South Fork Big Papillion Creek. Purple revisions from the early 1980s highlight the suburban expansion of Blair, particularly near the Blair Golf Course and along the local school grounds like West Sch and North Sch.