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1986 Map of Maryville

Name: 1986 Topographic Map of Maryville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1994
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1994

About this map

Maryville serves as the primary regional hub in this mid-1980s portrait of Northwest Missouri, anchored by the campus of Northwest Missouri State University. The landscape is defined by its deep-set river valleys, where the Platte River, the One Hundred and Two River, and the Grand River carve southward through a patchwork of agricultural townships. Transportation corridors like U.S. 71 and U.S. 136 connect numerous smaller prairie settlements, including Stanberry, Albany, and Bethany.

Evidence of the era's rail-and-river economy persists through the routes of the Burlington Northern RR and Norfolk and Western RR, which linked these rural communities to broader markets. Beyond the organized grid of farm roads and settlements, the map identifies protected areas such as the Grand Trace State Forest. For researchers, the map provides a look at the distribution of many rural cemeteries and small communities like Ravenwood and Gentryville before further modernization changed the local topography.