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1951 Map of Urbana

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Urbana
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1951
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1951

About this map

Urbana and the surrounding rural communities of Louisburg, Huckaby, and Rimby serve as the primary focal points of this 1951 survey, which documents the landscape of Dallas, Hickory, and Polk Counties just after mid-century. The settlement pattern is defined by upland ridges and a network of country churches and schools that anchored rural life, including Bower Chapel, Pleasant Ridge Ch, and the Star Ridge Sch in the southwest.

A network of local waterways, such as Ingalls Creek, Cahoonchie Creek, and Wilkinson Branch, dissects the terrain into distinct townships including Green and Lincoln. This map provides a detailed view of the regional road system before the expansion of modern highways, capturing individual farmstead locations and small community centers as they functioned in the early 1950s. Genealogists and local historians will find the specific placement of the Cuggington Cem and several community chapels like Hopewell Ch particularly useful for tracing family roots in this part of the Missouri Ozarks.