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1950 Map of Lynch

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Lynch
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1952
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1952

About this map

The Lynch townsite sits at the heart of this mid-century Missouri River Basin development survey, where the Chicago and North Western railroad corridor parallels the winding Ponca Creek. This landscape is defined by its transition from the creek valley floor to the high, dissected plateaus of Lynch and Bush townships, eventually descending south toward the wide Niobrara River.

A network of rural education is clearly preserved here, with five distinct schoolhouses—including School No 56 and School No 64—scattered across the townships to serve isolated farmsteads. Near the town of Lynch, local infrastructure like the Woolf Airport and Pleasant Hill Cemetery provides valuable spatial context for genealogists and local historians. The southern portion of the map records the winding channel of the Niobrara, marking the border between Boyd and Holt counties and featuring the small settlement of Redbird.