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1941 Map of Kimball North

Name: 1941 Topographic Map of Kimball North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1941
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1941

About this map

Kimball serves as the principal hub of this Brule County landscape just before the 1940s, situated along the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroad. The map reveals an exceptionally dense network of rural schoolhouses, suggesting a highly organized and distributed agricultural community during this era. Named educational landmarks like Prairie Belle Sch, Plainview Sch, and Boeson Sch are scattered across the townships of Lyon, Plummer, and Pratt, serving as vital centers for the families farming these plains.

Water features define the natural geography, with Crow Lake in the northeast corner and the headwaters of Crow Creek cutting through the terrain. To the south, White Lake and Jones Lake punctuate the prairie, while smaller outposts like Lyonville illustrate the early settlement patterns of the region. The map also delineates several county boundaries, including those between Buffalo, Jerauld, and Aurora counties.