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1951 Map of Lillian

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Lillian
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1952
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1952

About this map

Victoria Springs State Park anchors the northwestern corner of this Custer County landscape, established near the settlement of New Helena. The map reveals a mid-century rural infrastructure defined by scattered windmills and small country schools like Parritor Sch and Pleasant Valley Sch, which served the farming families of Pleasant Valley and the Lillian Valley.

Drainage systems such as Victoria Creek, Lillian Creek, and Dry Creek carve through the dissected terrain, which transitions into the elevated East Table in the south. Genealogists will find the community of Lillian and nearby Hillsdale Cem essential for tracing local family roots. The map was produced as part of the Department of the Interior's Missouri River Basin development program, illustrating the topographic detail of the Sandhills periphery during the early 1950s.