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1940 Map of Marshall

Name: 1940 Topographic Map of Marshall
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

Marshall serves as the focal point of this 1940 survey, anchored by the campus of Missouri Valley College and a small regional Landing Field. The landscape is defined by the drainage of the Salt Fork Missouri River and the Blackwater River, where numerous rural schoolhouses and country churches served a distributed agrarian population. These landmarks, including curiously named spots like Bucksnort Sch and the industrial-sounding Stonewall Sch, provide a dense network for genealogists tracing local families.

Transport is dominated by the Alton RR, which connects the town of Slater to the larger rail network. To the south, the saline character of the land is evident near Blue Lick Springs and the settlement of Blue Lick. The map preserves the locations of early 20th-century social hubs, from Smith Chapel to cemeteries like Sappington Cem, showing the Saline County countryside before modern agricultural consolidation.