1957 Map of Lebanon

About this map

The village of Lebanon sits along the winding valley of Beaver Creek in the southwest corner of Red Willow County, just north of the Nebraska Kansas state line. This landscape, surveyed in the mid-20th century as part of the Missouri River Basin development program, is defined by the east-west corridor of the Burlington Northern railroad. The agricultural character of the era is evidenced by local landmarks such as Hamburg Cem and Redman Cem, which anchor the rural sections surrounding the town site. The map provides a detailed view of the section lines and topography at a time when the railroad remained the primary pulse of transport through these prairie creek bottoms.