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1894 Map of Fredonia

Name: 1894 Topographic Map of Fredonia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1914
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1914

About this map

Fredonia and Yates Center serve as the primary hubs in this late 19th-century reconnaissance survey of Woodson and Wilson Counties. The landscape is defined by the convergence of several major rail lines, including the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad and the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad, which facilitated the growth of small trackside settlements like New Albany and Piqua.

The map reveals a dense network of watercourses, such as Big Cedar Creek and Sandy Creek, that dictated the placement of early townships. Distinctive landmarks like Twin Mounds south of the Wilson County seat provide a unique topographic orientation for genealogists tracing family lands. Smaller, localized points of interest including Center Ridge, Burdgeville, and Guilford highlight the distributed nature of rural Kansas life before the consolidation of modern municipalities.