1952 Map of Huffton

About this map

The Great Northern railroad cuts diagonally across the prairie landscape of Brown County, serving the small settlement of Huffton during the early 1950s. This survey, conducted as part of the Department of the Interior's Missouri River Basin development program, reveals a transition in rural education and social infrastructure. While active country schools like Featherhoff Sch, Happy Hour Sch, and Progress Sch dot the township boundaries of Claremont and Riverside, the map specifically notes the Washington Sch (Abandoned) in Putney township, signaling the shifting population patterns of the era. The presence of the Good Samaritan Home and several locations marked as Flowing Well highlights the community's reliance on groundwater and local care facilities in this northern Great Plains region.