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1894 Map of Harrisonville

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

USGS Topo · Published 1894

About this map

Harrisonville serves as a central hub in this late nineteenth-century survey, anchoring a landscape increasingly defined by a complex web of iron rails. The expansion of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Kansas City Clinton and Lexington Railroad illustrates the shift from isolated prairie townships to connected trade centers. Small agrarian settlements such as Peculiar and Gunn City appear alongside important stage and post stops like Daugherty (Eight Mile P. O.).

Natural landmarks and elevation markers like Thornton and Hutton Mound provide a vertical perspective on the terrain, which drains through the East Branch of Grand River and the winding Big Creek. Genealogy researchers will find significant value in the detailed identification of early Cass County civil divisions, including West Peculiar and Camp Branch, alongside smaller locales like Lone Jack and Greenwood that supported the region's early growth.