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1954 Map of Webster Groves

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Webster Groves
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

Jefferson Barracks anchors the southeastern corner of this suburban landscape, overlooking the Mississippi River and Sugar Loaf Bottoms. The map documents a dense network of Catholic institutional history, featuring the St Louis Preparatory Seminary, Kenrick Seminary, and Webster College. These campuses are surrounded by several large-scale burial grounds, including the National Cemetery and Resurrection Cemetery, which define the open space between expanding residential tracts.

Transport and water management are central themes, illustrated by the River des Peres Drainage Channel cutting through the center of the sheet. Urban growth in the mid-1970s is evident in purple revisions across Webster Groves, Affton, and Crestwood. Major transit arteries like the Missouri Pacific and St Louis-San Francisco railroads parallel historic corridors such as Manchester Rd and Gravois Rd, showing how early rail lines shaped the development of Richmond Heights and Maplewood.