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1960 Map of Potter

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Potter
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

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Stranger Creek and its many tributaries, including Crooked Creek and Mooney Creek, carve a complex drainage pattern across this rural landscape at the junction of Atchison, Jefferson, and Leavenworth counties. The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad serves as the primary industrial corridor, connecting the small settlements of Potter, Hawthorne, and Cummings. This network of rail and road supported a robust system of rural education and worship, evidenced by numerous numbered schoolhouses and community churches.

Local history and genealogy researchers will find several well-distributed burial grounds, such as Round Mound Cem and Fairview Cem, along with the St Johns Ch and its namesake cemetery further south. The land use is primarily agricultural, though a small Quarry indicates localized extraction. The presence of facilities like the Corpus Christi Sch and School No 6 reveals the density of the rural population before mid-century school consolidations shifted the local demographic landscape.