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1955 Map of Clinton

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Clinton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

The Wakarusa River and its numerous tributaries, including Coon Creek, Dry Creek, and Rock Creek, dominate the rural landscape of Douglas County in the mid-1950s. Small rural communities like Stull and Clinton serve as focal points for the surrounding agricultural townships of Kanwaka and Clinton. The map reveals a distribution of educational and social pillars from a passing era, such as Deer Creek Sch, Yarnold Sch, and Belvoir Sch.

Infrastructure transitions are evident where the modern Kansas Turnpike and its accompanying Toll Road cut across the northern sections, contrasted by a network of unimproved dirt roads and light-duty paths connecting local farms. Local industry is represented by a small Quarry and Pit, while community heritage is preserved at Mound Cem and Clinton Cem. Purple revisions from 1970 illustrate late-century additions like a Radio Tower and Roadside Park, marking the slow creep of modernization into the river valley.