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1964 Map of Maskell

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Maskell
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

About this map

The Missouri River and Vermillion River converge along the Nebraska-South Dakota border in this mid-1960s survey of Dixon County. The village of Maskell stands near the headwaters of East Lime Creek, where a cluster of farm-to-market roads connects the settlement to the Maskell Cem. To the southeast, the town of Newcastle is situated among the high ridges above Aowa Creek, marking a center of local activity along State Route 12.

The landscape is defined by the sharp transition from the broad, braided river bottoms of the north to the dissected bluffs of Hooker and Newcastle townships. Numerous small watercourses like Turkey Creek and Walnut Creek carve deep into the plateau, while the small community of Lime Grove and the Lime Creek Cem provide important reference points for genealogists tracing the early rural families of this bluff-country region.