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1956 Map of Bucyrus

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Bucyrus
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

Bucyrus and the surrounding farm country of the Kansas-Missouri border region are documented here in the mid-1950s. The landscape is a network of rural schoolhouses and small settlements defined by the paths of the Missouri Pacific and Missouri Kansas Texas railroads. A significant historical line, the South Boundary Shawnee Reserve, cuts across the center of the map, marking an earlier era of land division.

Education and industry appear throughout the countryside, with several local schoolhouses like Snake Den Sch and Cole Sch serving the farming families. To the southwest, a local Oil Field indicates the subsurface resource extraction of the period. Waterways like North Wea Creek and Tenmile Creek wind through the terrain, with the settlement of Louisburg appearing at the southern edge near the junction of two major rail lines.