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1961 Map of Gordon

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Gordon
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

Little Walnut River meanders through the central Butler County landscape, anchoring a rural environment defined by small agricultural settlements and dispersed homesteads during the early 1960s. The village of Gordon serves as a primary rail point along the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line, which skirts the western edge of the quadrangle. This era shows a well-established network of country churches and burial grounds, including Cumberland Ch and the nearby Little Walnut Cem, reflecting the localized social structure of the Kansas plains.

In the southeast, a U S Military Reservation occupies a portion of the terrain near Chigger Creek, while the presence of several Gravel Pits indicates the local extraction industry. Small hamlets like Bois D'Arc, Bloomington, and Smileyberg are linked by a grid of section-line roads, illustrating the systematic land division of the region. The map also records several family-named drainage features such as Swisher Branch and Muddy Creek, which feed into the larger river valley.