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1983 Map of Needham

Name: 1983 Topographic Map of Needham
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1984
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1984

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Agricultural drainage and heavy rail dominate this Craighead County landscape, where the Little Bay Ditch, Butler Ditch, and Maple Slough Ditch channel water through a grid of low-lying fields. The settlement pattern is defined by rural centers like Farville and Hergett, often oriented around the rail corridors of the Burlington Northern and the St Louis Southwestern Pacific.

A high density of country churches serves as the primary social landmarks for this farming community. From Rogers Chapel in the north to Liberty Ch in the south, these institutions appear at nearly every major crossroads. Notable locations such as Providence Gum Pt Ch near Gum Point and Needham Ch reflect the distributed nature of the population in the early 1980s, before modern consolidation altered many of these small-town centers.