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1965 Map of Fort Logan

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Fort Logan
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

The Fort Logan military installation and its adjacent National Cemetery anchor the southern landscape of this 1965 survey, which captures the post-war suburban expansion southwest of Denver. The terrain is defined by a sophisticated water management network, including the massive Marston Lake and the Moffat Filtration Plant, feeding the growth of Lakewood and Englewood. Massive institutional footprints like the Denver Federal Center and the Federal Correctional Institute contrast with the burgeoning residential grids and emerging retail hubs like the Westland Shopping Center.

Industrial and transport corridors follow the South Platte River, where the Denver and Rio Grande Western RR and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe RR parallel major thoroughfares. Local genealogy interest is found in the dense concentration of mid-century schools and churches, such as St Anthony of Padua Sch and Bethlehem Sch, which served the rapidly filling neighborhoods of Sheridan and Edgewater during this era of peak metropolitan development.