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2017 Map of Saint Joseph South

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Saint Joseph South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

St. Joseph serves as the focal point of this 2017 survey, where the urban street grid of the southern city meets the rural reaches of Buchanan County. The Missouri River defines the western edge, separating Missouri from Doniphan County, Kansas, and the community of Elwood. This landscape is particularly dense with genealogical markers, including numerous burial sites like New King Hill Cem, Walnut Grove Cem, and the historic Old Sparta Cem near the former site of Sparta.

Transitioning away from the river bottoms, the terrain rises into hills carved by Pigeon Creek and Contrary Creek. Smaller outlying settlements such as Agency, Willow Brook, and Saxton punctuate the landscape, connected by a network of rural roads like Cunningham Rd SE. In the south, the Lawlor-Justus Airport and several private water bodies like Little Ozark Fishing Lake and Possum Hollow Lake reflect a mix of aviation infrastructure and recreational land use typical of the early 21st-century outskirts.