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1920 Map of Stephenville

Name: 1920 Topographic Map of Stephenville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1920
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1920

About this map

The Stephenville and Dublin corridor serves as a major agricultural and transportation hub in this early twentieth-century military survey. The landscape is defined by the branching tributaries of the Bosque River and the three major rail lines that intersect here, including the Texas Central and the Stephenville North & South Texas railroads. These iron veins supported a network of small settlements and local industry, such as the Morgan Mill and the community at Alexander.

Rural life is marked by numerous family-named landmarks and essential local institutions, from Tanner School in the northwest to Duffau Wells in the southeast. Distinctive terrain features like Pilot Knob, Murphy Peak, and Brushy Mountain provide navigational markers across the Erath County countryside. This survey captures the region just as the early rail-and-river economy was firmly established, before modern highways reorganized the Texan landscape.