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1949 Map of Koshopah

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Koshopah
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

The North Loup River and Goose Creek anchor this ranching landscape where the borders of Cherry, Brown, and Blaine counties meet. In the late 1940s, the area's rural social structure is clearly defined by a dense network of one-room schoolhouses serving the Elsmere Valley and surrounding hills, including North Elsmere Sch, Central Elsmere Sch, and South Elsmere Sch.

Isolated family ranching operations such as White Ranch, Mellott Ranch, and Neubauer Ranch are prominent, illustrating the large-acreage land use patterns of the Nebraska Sandhills. Local centers of community life are preserved through the locations of the Giles Cem and Valley View Cem, as well as the settlement at Koshopah. The map also details early water features like Willow Lake and the marshy expanses of Hawley Flats, which remain critical to the region's cattle-driven economy.