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1940 Map of Red Cloud

Name: 1940 Topographic Map of Red Cloud
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1954
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1954

About this map

The Republican River valley serves as the central artery for this south-central Nebraska landscape, where the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad tracks parallel the water through Red Cloud and Inavale. The grid-patterned township system is densely punctuated by rural community infrastructure, including an unusually high concentration of one-room schoolhouses such as Line Tree Sch, Pleasant Prairie Sch, and the Poor Farm Sch.

Genealogists will find a wealth of family and community history recorded in the numerous cemeteries like Catherton Cem and New Virginia Cem, alongside early religious centers such as St Stevens Ch and Zion Ch. The map also captures the transition at the Nebraska Kansas state line, showing how local watercourses like Walnut Creek and Penny Creek drain the surrounding agricultural uplands toward the river bottomlands.