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1948 Map of Crosby SW

Name: 1948 Topographic Map of Crosby SW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1948
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1948

About this map

The rolling plains of North Dakota in the years immediately following World War II reveal a rural landscape defined by township organization and small community centers. In this corner of Divide County, the transition between the townships of Troy, Burg, and Twin Butte is marked by a network of sectional roads and essential social anchors. Local life centered on the Town Hall and the small country churches of Troy Ch and Bethlehem Ch, which served the farming families of the high prairie.

Education in this era was decentralized, as evidenced by the distribution of several rural schoolhouses. One can find Lexington Sch in the north, Roseville Sch to the west, and two separate institutions for the Whiteaker district: Whiteaker No 4 Sch and Whiteaker No 1 Sch. The map's detailed topography, compiled from 1946 aerial photography and 1947 plane-table methods, captures the numerous prairie potholes and natural depressions characteristic of this glaciated terrain.