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1956 Map of Doland SW

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Doland SW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1957
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1957

About this map

Belle Plaine and Harrison townships define the open prairie landscape of Spink County as it was documented in the mid-1950s. This survey was conducted as part of the Department of the Interior's Missouri River Basin development program, illustrating the rural infrastructure that supported agricultural life during this era. The map reveals a network of country schoolhouses and small community markers, including Lawrence Sch and Happy Hollow Sch, which served as local anchors for farm families across the plains.

Water sources were essential to this environment, marked here by the meandering path of Timber Creek and several subterranean access points such as a Flowing Well. For those tracing family history in the area, the Ebenezer Cem in the southern portion of the quadrangle provides a specific genealogical waypoint. The survey captures the organized grid of the Dakota territory divisions, with clearly delineated boundaries for Frankfort and Lincoln townships.