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1957 Map of Box Elder School

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Box Elder School
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1963
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1963

About this map

Box Elder School sits on the eastern edge of this Adams County landscape, representing a rural era defined by dispersed homesteads and evolving irrigation systems. The terrain is marked by the parallel courses of Third Creek, Second Creek, and First Creek, which flow northwest toward the Platte Valley. Water management is a central theme of the mid-century development seen here, evidenced by the East Branch Highland Canal and traces of an Abandoned Canal that once served the local agricultural effort.

Industrial and transport infrastructure is concentrated in the southwest near the Union Pacific tracks, where the Sky Ranch Airport and a Compressor Station reflect the area's growing logistical importance. Along Irondale Road and throughout the section lines, scattered Oil Wells and tanks point to the extraction economy that shared the landscape with cattle operations like the Green Valley Ranch. Small country landmarks such as First Creek School remain as vital touchpoints for genealogists tracing the early 20th-century social geography of this high plains region.