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1940 Map of Vista

Name: 1940 Topographic Map of Vista
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1940
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1940

About this map

Coon Creek and the Sac River carve through the townships of Doyal and Washington in this 1938 survey of St. Clair County. The landscape is defined by a dense network of rural infrastructure, where small schoolhouses like Ashworth Sch and Tower Grove Sch served dispersed farming communities. Transport and trade were anchored by the St Louis-San Francisco railroad, which passes through the village of Vista and the smaller station at Tracy.

Genealogists can find numerous family and community landmarks, including Valley Ch and Oak Grove Ch, alongside well-distributed burial grounds such as Roberts Cem and Nance Cem. The terrain south of the river rises toward Shryers Bluff, while the eastern portion of the map shows the transition into Collins township. This document preserves the exact placement of these landmarks just before mid-century changes altered the rural Missouri school system.