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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

The unincorporated community of Jarbalo serves as the focal point for this mid-century survey of rural Leavenworth County. Settled within the drainages of Stranger Creek and its many tributaries, the landscape is defined by its small-town civic infrastructure. The area is densely populated with neighborhood schoolhouses, including Centennial School, Elmwood School, and Skaggs School, alongside the Friendship Valley School to the south.

Agricultural life is organized around the local townships of Alexandria, High Prairie, Tonganoxie, and Stranger. Transportation in the late 1940s relied on a network of winding country roads and the Union Pacific railroad line crossing the southern section near Smith School. For genealogists, the map provides precise locations for the Fall Creek Cemetery and Eagle Cemetery, marking the resting places of early area families near the banks of Fall Creek and Jarbalo Creek.