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1899 Map of St. Paul

Name: 1899 Topographic Map of St. Paul
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1899
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1899

About this map

St. Paul serves as the focal point for this late 19th-century survey of Nebraska's fertile central valleys. Located at the confluence of the North Fork Loup River and the Loup River, the town appears as a key rail junction where the Burlington and Missouri River R. R. meets the local lines. The landscape is defined by the broad, braided channels of the Loup and the Platte River, which dictate the placement of early settlements like Central City and Chapman.

A notable topographic detail is found in the prairie south of the Loup, where unique terrain features like Mumpumpey Hill and the curiously named Four Room Blowout rise above the flat Gage Valley. The map meticulously tracks the development of the region's rail-and-river economy, documenting the infrastructure of a growing prairie state, from the Gaging Station on the river to the small prairie outposts of Palmer and Wolbach.