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1937 Map of Bowling Green

Name: 1937 Topographic Map of Bowling Green
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

Bowling Green serves as the focal point of this Pike County landscape during the late 1920s and 1930s, situated at the junction of the Chicago and Alton RR and U.S. Highway 61. The map reveals a highly developed agricultural and horticultural interior, most notably featuring the extensive Stark Nursery near Louisiana. The terrain transitions from the alluvial bottomlands of the Mississippi River and Salt River in the northeast to the undulating uplands of the Sugar Creek Hills.

Local civic life is deeply etched into the topography through a dense network of country schools and churches, including Vine Hill Sch, Rural Grove Sch, and Noix Creek Ch. Genealogists will find significant value in the numerous family and community burial grounds such as Wooten Cem, Bryson Cem, and McElwee Cem. The presence of the County Farm and several vanished rail stops like Quincy Junction provide a window into the social and economic infrastructure of early twentieth-century Missouri.