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1969 Map of Wahoo East

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Wahoo East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

Wahoo serves as the primary hub of this 1969 agricultural and educational landscape, featuring the campus of John F Kennedy College and the Wahoo Municipal Airport. The town is a confluence of regional transport, where the Chicago and North Western, Union Pacific, and Burlington Northern railroads intersect near the center of the sheet. This transport network supported a bustling local economy evidenced by the Powerplant, Fairground, and various industrial Sandpits along the waterways.

Water management and rural life are clearly defined by the paths of Wahoo Creek and Silver Creek, which wind past the smaller settlements of Ithaca and Swedeburg. For genealogists, the map is a dense record of early community sites, including numerous family and church burial grounds such as Indian Mound Cem, Sunrise Cem, and Alma Cem. The presence of the University of Nebraska Field Laboratory in the southeast corner points to the area's ongoing importance to agricultural research and development during the late 1960s.