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1950 Map of Jarbalo

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Jarbalo
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1950
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1950

About this map

Jarbalo serves as the central hub for this Leavenworth County landscape, where the rural topography is defined by the winding course of Stranger Creek and its many tributaries. The area is notable for its exceptionally dense network of local schoolhouses, including Centennial School, Star School, Elmwood School, and Smith School, which suggests a highly organized 19th-century district system still largely intact at the time of this 1948 field check. These small, scattered school sites, often located at crossroads like Five Points, provide valuable touchpoints for family historians.

The presence of several community anchors, such as Eagle Cemetery and the Fall Creek Cemetery, further emphasizes the generational ties to the land. Transportation through the southern portion is marked by the Union Pacific railroad line, which parallels the creeks through the Tonganoxie and Stranger townships. The map records a transition between the open uplands of High Prairie and the detailed drainage basins of Fall Creek and Rock Creek.