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1963 Map of Morehouse

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Morehouse
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

The Little River and the Castor River dominate this low-lying landscape in the Bootheel region of Missouri, where the drainage patterns of the Otter Slough Ditch intersect with significant rail infrastructure. The intersection of the St Louis San Francisco and the Missouri Pacific railroads defines the layout of Morehouse, a key junction at the time of this early 1960s survey.

Smaller rural hubs such as Canalou, Buffington, and Delmo are situated within the fertile Big Prairie and Elk terrains. Local landmarks include New Bethel Ch, the Gaging Station on the Little River, and isolated water bodies like King Lake and Whitten Lake. The map reveals a highly engineered landscape of ditches and levees necessary to manage the river system for agricultural use in the mid-20th century.