1945 Map of Pittsburg

About this map

Coal mining operations dominate the landscape surrounding Pittsburg during the mid-1940s, characterized by numerous Strip Mine sites that scar the terrain across the Kansas and Missouri border. This industrial footprint is interlaced with a dense network of rail lines, including the Missouri Pacific, ST Louis San Francisco, and Southern railroads, which served the region's heavy mineral extraction. Beyond the industrial core of Frontenac and Dunkirk, the map reveals a rural social infrastructure of one-room schools such as Gaskell Sch and Neutral Sch, alongside the developing Atkinson Municipal Airport. The southern portion transitions into the agricultural reaches of Pleasant View, where Cow Creek and Brush Creek wind through the township, providing a detailed record of the Crawford and Cherokee county borderlands before modern land reclamation transformed the old mining districts.