1897 Map of Red Cloud

About this map

The Republican River valley defines the southern corridor of this late nineteenth-century Nebraska landscape, where the settlement of Red Cloud serves as a vital rail and river junction. Surveyed by R.M. Towson, the terrain transitions from the river bottomlands into the dissected uplands of southern Nebraska and northern Kansas. The mapping reveals a developing transit network with the Union Pacific crossing through Minden in the north and the Burlington and Missouri River railroad paralleling the water to the south.