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2017 Map of Dudley

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Dudley
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

Dudley serves as the primary hub of this Stoddard County landscape, situated along the corridor of N Old Hwy 60 and the railroad. The town's grid is flanked by the Dudley Airport to the south and Dudley Cem to the northwest. This area of southeast Missouri is defined by its sophisticated drainage network, featuring the prominent Dudley Main Ditch and Cypress Lateral Number 1, which channel water through the low-lying terrain near The Glades Swamp. These engineered waterways transformed the regional geography to support the surrounding agricultural fields.

North of the main settlement, the smaller locales of Aid and Redd sit among a web of county roads and watercourses like Spring Cr. Local history is preserved in several rural burial grounds, including the Old Bethel Cem near Orchard Lake and the Smith Cem to the south. The map provides a detailed view of the transition from the wetlands of Cane Cr to the established road networks of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.