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1953 Map of Saint Paul

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Saint Paul
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

The Mississippi River and the Minnesota River converge at the historic heart of the Twin Cities, where the Fort Snelling Military Reservation sits as a central landmark. This mid-century survey, updated in the late 1970s, captures the post-war expansion of Minneapolis and Saint Paul as suburbs like Bloomington, Edina, and Richfield began to fill the landscape between the urban core and the expansive Lake Minnetonka to the west.

Industrial and transport corridors are heavily defined by the Chicago Milwaukee Saint Paul and Pacific and Chicago and North Western railroads, which parallel the river valleys. To the southeast, the landscape transitions into the steep bluffs of the Richard J Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest overlooking Lake Pepin. The map also details numerous recreational and conservation areas, from Stillwater on the St Croix River to southern anchors like Sakatah Lake State Park.