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1958 Map of Spain

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Spain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

Spain serves as the small rail hub for this section of Marshall County, situated along the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroad. The landscape is defined by the township boundaries of Weston, Lowell, Newport, and Hickman, showing a grid of section lines characteristic of the Missouri River Basin development era. Educational centers are distributed across the rural terrain, including School No 1 in the north and multiple instances of School No 2 further south.

Water management and terrain modification are evident through features like Crow Creek and the presence of a Spoil Bank near the western edge. Numerous instances of a Flowing Well suggest the importance of groundwater for the agricultural operations of the late 1950s. This survey, completed as part of a larger federal program for regional development, provides a clear view of the prairie infrastructure before more modern consolidations changed the local landscape.