1948 Map of Garland
USGS Topo · Published 1977About this map
The Kansas City Southern and St Louis - San Francisco railroads anchor this landscape along the Kansas-Missouri border, connecting the rail towns of Garland and Arcadia. The terrain is defined by extractive industry and rural community life, where numerous sites marked Strip Mine underscore the region's coal-mining activity. These excavations weave between a dense network of one-room schoolhouses, including Glenwood Sch, Totten Sch, and Belmont Sch, which served the dispersed farming families of Harrison and Leroy townships. Notable landmarks like Blue Mound and Martin Mound rise above the drainage basins of West Fork Dry Wood Creek and McKill Creek. This mapping, based on 1939 aerial photography and 1948 field methods, captures a specific era of mid-century Midwestern land use before modern agricultural consolidation changed the footprint of these local centers.
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