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1950 Map of Kahoka

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

USGS Topo · Published 1950

About this map

Kahoka serves as the focal point of this Clark County landscape, showing a grid of residential blocks and the County Fairgrounds just south of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy tracks. The surrounding rural townships, including Lincoln and Sweet Home, are defined by a network of one-room schoolhouses such as Oak Grove Sch and Little Fox Sch, which anchored these farming communities before the era of school consolidation.

Waterways like the Fox River and Little Fox River meander through the terrain, bridged by structures like the Waterloo Bridge. For genealogists, the map is particularly valuable for its precise location of small family and community burial grounds, including St Paul Cem, Prairie Church Cem, and the Waterloo Cem near the banks of the river. The presence of the Lincoln College Sch north of the county seat highlights the area's early educational infrastructure.