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1954 Map of Greeley NW

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Greeley NW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

Homestead and Parnell townships define the rural character of this central Nebraska landscape during the mid-1950s. The map captures a high-plains community organized around a grid of section lines and township boundaries, where local life centered on small landmarks like Amity Sch, Fairview Sch, and Fairdale Sch. These schools, spaced for accessibility in an era of local rural education, along with the Amity Cem, provide significant markers for genealogical research in this sparsely settled region.

Water and transport patterns are traced through Clear Creek and the presence of an Old Grade railroad bed, indicating earlier infrastructure that had already been bypassed by the time of the 1951 aerial photography. Bordering Ericson to the north and passing through the hills of Mount Pleasant, the survey offers a precise record of farmsteads and windmills that sustained the livestock-driven economy of the day.