1937 Map of Utica

About this map

The agricultural landscape of eastern Nebraska is meticulously detailed here, centered on the village of Utica and the town of Thayer. This area, surveyed during the mid-1930s, reveals a dense network of rural infrastructure including over two dozen one-room schoolhouses like Sleepy Hollow Sch and Northfield Sch. The region is defined by the Chicago and Northwestern and Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroads, which facilitated the growth of these prairie communities. Local life is anchored by family-centered landmarks such as Prairie Grove Cem and St John Ch, while the terrain follows the winding path of Lincoln Creek and the West Fork Big Blue River. The presence of the Sixth Principal Meridian highlights the importance of early surveying and land division in the township system of Stewart and West Blue.