1958 Map of Devon

About this map

Devon and the surrounding Bourbon County countryside are defined by a network of rural schools and churches that anchored this Kansas community in the late 1950s. The landscape is split between the northern timbered elevations of Timber Hill and Freedom, and the fertile bottomlands of Mill Creek to the south. A prominent Old Railroad Grade cuts north-to-south through the center of the sheet, passing through Harding and Devon, marking the path of former rail commerce that once supported the local agricultural economy.