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1946 Map of Sedalia West

Name: 1946 Topographic Map of Sedalia West
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1946
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1946

About this map

Sedalia and the surrounding agricultural landscape of Prairie and Dresden townships are captured here in the mid-1940s. The map highlights the western edge of the city, including the expansive State Fair Grounds and the Radio Sta KDRO tower. This period shows a community organized around a dense network of rural one-room schoolhouses like Quisenberry Sch, Jackson Sch, and Oak Grove Sch, many of which served as local landmarks for generations of farming families.

Transportation is defined by the Missouri Pacific railroad corridor and the Old Kansas Texas and Missouri Highway, which parallel the older creek drainages of Muddy Creek and Flat Creek. The landscape is dotted with family-named locations such as Campbell Siding and Quisenberry Cem, offering genealogists specific points of interest for tracing ancestral property. Small community hubs like Dresden and Fouling Point anchor the rail and road network west of the city center.