1951 Map of Oconto SW

About this map

Redfern Table dominates the northern landscape of this Nebraska upland, where the terrain transitions across the Custer and Dawson county line. The map captures a rural social fabric organized by township boundaries like Grant and Gillan, punctuated by the essential institutions of mid-century prairie life. Scattered one-room schoolhouses, including Sunny Hill Sch, School No 11, and Lemmery Sch, suggest a once-dense population of farm families who gathered at central points like the Pleasant Valley Ch. The drainage pattern is defined by the headwaters of Spring Creek, West Buffalo Creek, and East Buffalo Creek, which carve deep draws through the loess hills. These watercourses influenced the placement of early homesteads and road networks during a period of established agrarian development in the Missouri River Basin.