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1945 Map of Clear Springs

Name: 1945 Topographic Map of Clear Springs
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1963
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1963

About this map

Solo, Tyrone, and Clear Springs center this 1945 survey of the Missouri Ozarks, a landscape defined by its deep hollows and the headwaters of the Jacks Fork river system. The settlement pattern is distinctly rural, with community life anchored by numerous country churches such as Steely Chapel, Dutch Ch, and Freedom Ch. Education was similarly decentralized, as evidenced by the distribution of small local schools like Greenhill Sch, Nogle Sch, and Wofford Sch.

The southern portion of the map transitions into the Mark Twain National Forest, where the terrain becomes more pronounced around King Mtn. Water sources were vital to local development, seen in the proximity of Big Spring and Spout Spring Hollow to early homesteads. For genealogists, the inclusion of New Home Cem and New Salem Cem, along with family-named landmarks like Rocky Mtn Ranch, provides a detailed record of the families established in Texas and Howell Counties before mid-century modernizations.