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1956 Map of Ralston

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Ralston
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

The Union Pacific and Burlington Northern corridors define the industrial and suburban expansion south of Omaha in the mid-1950s. This survey records the rapid growth of Papillion, Ralston, and Millard, with purple revisions from 1969 and 1975 showing the emergence of La Vista. The landscape is a mix of traditional rural infrastructure, like the Prairie Queen Sch and Portal Sch, and modern urban additions such as the Millard Municipal Airport and Bergan Hosp.

Several prominent cemeteries, including Calvary Cemetery and Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, anchor the northern residential districts near Ak-Sar-Ben Field. The topography is shaped by the complex drainage of the Big Papillion Creek and its branches, including Hell Creek and West Papillion Creek, which carved valleys that the railroads and highways now follow as they radiate from the metropolitan center.