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2017 Map of Brookline

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Brookline
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

Brookline and the northern reaches of Republic anchor this landscape on the southwestern periphery of Springfield. The area is characterized by a transition from established urban infrastructure to a rural-suburban grid defined by an extensive network of farm roads, including W Farm Rd 144 and W Farm Rd 156. Waterways like Pond Cr and the Sac River carve through the terrain, while landmarks such as the Springfield-Branson National Airport mark the region's modern logistical importance.

Genealogists and local historians can find significant research value in the distribution of family and community burial grounds, from the large White Chapel Memorial Gardens Cem to the smaller Brookline Cem and Harrington Cem. Smaller named locales such as Elwood and Haseltine suggest the earlier dispersed settlement patterns of Greene County, even as the sprawling development of larger municipalities begins to overlap these historic footprints.