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1958 Map of Hammond

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Hammond
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1959
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1959

About this map

St Louis San Francisco railroad tracks anchor the small settlement of Hammond in Bourbon County, Kansas, cutting a diagonal path through the prairie landscape. The area is defined by its rural civic structure, where every few miles reveals a local schoolhouse or church, including Glendale Ch and the West Liberty Sch. These small, localized institutions served a dispersed farming population that relied on the fertile bottomlands near the Little Osage River and Wolverine Creek.

Industry and agriculture coexist here, with several Quarries and a notable Strip Mine indicating the transition from traditional farming to mineral extraction. To the south, the community around Bunker Hill is marked by the Bunker Hill Sch, while the presence of the West Liberty Cem and Maple Grove Cem provides essential spatial records for genealogists tracing families in the Osage, Freedom, and Scott townships during the mid-century era.