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1943 Map of Lenexa

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Lenexa
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

Lenexa and Overland Park serve as the primary hubs in this Johnson County landscape, which was surveyed shortly before the United States entered World War II. The map reveals a transition from the structured street grids of developing townships into a rural interior defined by independent school districts and family landmarks. Transportation defines the region's movement, with the St Louis and San Francisco RR and the Missouri and Kansas Electric RR cutting across the terrain toward Kansas City.

Social life in the early 1940s centered around community institutions like the Antioch Ch and a dense network of rural schoolhouses, including Oak Grove Sch and Tomahawk Sch. Distinctive recreational sites such as the Mission Valley Hunt Club and a dedicated Polo Field near Mission township indicate the suburban character beginning to take root along the eastern edge of the quadrangle, while the southern reaches near Oxford remain defined by the winding paths of Indian Creek and Tomahawk Creek.