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1974 Map of Melrose

Name: 1974 Topographic Map of Melrose
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

The Old Indian Treaty Boundary bisects this Cherokee County landscape, marking a historical line across the rural townships of Lola, Salamanca, Neosho, and Lyon. In the mid-1970s, this area near the Oklahoma border remained deeply agricultural, anchored by the small settlement of Melrose and the nearby community of Keelville. The landscape is defined by the winding paths of Fly Creek, Squaw Creek, and Fourmile Creek, which create natural corridors through the surveyed grid of section lines.

Genealogists and local historians can trace the foundations of these communities through numerous landmarks, including Greenlawn Sch and Pleasant Hill Ch. The mapping of an Old RR Gr near the state line, alongside the active Missouri Pacific tracks in the northwest corner, illustrates the shifting transportation patterns of the era. Smaller, vanished locales such as Douthat and Center are preserved here, along with family and community burial sites like Fly Creek Cem and Moore Cem.