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1949 Map of Lynn

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Lynn
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

Lynn and its surrounding ranchlands emerge as a network of cattle country and pocket lakes in this survey of Morrill County. The landscape is defined by its numerous shallow basins, including Bignell Lake, Smith Lake, and Rush Lake, which are interspersed between distinctive landforms like Cowboy Hill and Reilly Hill. These water bodies provided critical resources for operations like the Smith Ranch, while the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad provided the essential link to outside markets.

Education in this rural district was highly decentralized, evidenced by the distribution of country schoolhouses. Locations such as North School No 93, South School No 94, and School No 150 are precisely mapped, offering clear evidence of the community's mid-century footprint. Numerous Windmill sites are marked throughout the terrain, tracing the vital infrastructure required to support life and livestock in this portion of the Nebraska panhandle.