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1952 Map of Leader SW

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Leader SW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1953
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1953

About this map

West Bijou Creek and East Bijou Creek meander through this Adams County landscape, illustrating a transition in mid-century rural infrastructure. Mapping conducted by plane-table surveys in 1952 reveals a decline in certain local institutions, notably with the Hopewell School (Aban'd) and Opportunity School (Aban'd) both marked as defunct. Despite these closures, the region remained active through agricultural operations like Munson Ranch, Sherman Ranch, and Bigger Ranch.

Water management is a central theme of the terrain, visible through the Hopewell Ditch, a Levee, and a Reservoir (Abandoned). The presence of the Adams County Road Station near Irondale Road suggests the ongoing importance of county maintenance in this period of the Missouri River Basin development program. Numerous windmills are scattered across the sheet, marking the essential reliance on groundwater for the ranches and homesteads of the era.