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1936 Map of Pawnee

Name: 1936 Topographic Map of Pawnee
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1936
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1936

About this map

The Pawnee townsite serves as the central hub of this mid-1930s landscape, positioned where the St Louis and San Francisco railroad meets the meandering Black Bear Creek. This period reveals a densely settled rural community defined by its educational and industrial infrastructure. A remarkable network of over twenty country schools, including Pleasant Valley Sch, Lone Star Sch, and Skedee Valley Sch, indicates the distributed nature of the population across the townships of Eagle, Burnham, and Liberty.

The Oklahoma energy and trade economy of the era is evident through the presence of the Champlin Pumping Sta and Gulf Pumping Sta. To the east of the main town, the Pawnee Indian School Reservation and the Old Town Trading Post highlight the complex cultural and administrative history of the region. The northern boundary is defined by the sweeping Big Bend of the Arkansas River, which contains Beaver Island and Turkey Island at the Osage Co Pawnee Co border.