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1921 Map of Brownsville

Name: 1921 Topographic Map of Brownsville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1947
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1947

About this map

Brownsville serves as a primary hub for this early 20th-century landscape, situated where the Southern Pacific railroad meets the winding Calapooya River. The map reveals a highly developed network of rural education, with numerous local institutions like Union Point School, Rockhill School, and Diamond Hill School serving the farming families of the southern Willamette Valley. Infrastructure like the Brownsville Ditch and the proximity of settlements such as Sodaville and Waterloo reflect an era of established agriculture and hydraulic management.

To the east, a significant portion of the sheet remains marked as an Unsurveyed Area, emphasizing the frontier-like edge of the valley where formal mapping had not yet penetrated the deeper timber and foothills. The flow of the South Santiam River in the northeast corner and smaller tributaries like Courtney Creek define the drainage patterns that governed early property lines and settlement placement.