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1921 Map of Buda

Name: 1921 Topographic Map of Buda
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1959
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1959

About this map

The Illinois and Mississippi Canal cuts a prominent horizontal path across this Bureau County landscape, illustrating a critical era of midwestern water transport. This survey captures a dense network of early 20th-century rural infrastructure, where small settlements like Sheffield and Wyanet serve as hubs for three major rail lines: the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, the Chicago Burlington and Quincy, and the Chicago and Northwestern.

Genealogists will find an exceptional density of named schools, such as the Sister School, Pleasant Grove School, and the West Bureau Consolidated School, reflecting the scattered township education system of the time. The presence of the County Farm near the Bureau Creek valley provides a specific landmark for local social history. Named trails like the Cannonball Trail and Sunset Trail parallel the tracks, marking the early development of formal road networks alongside established rural churches like Providence and the Old Manlius Church.