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1956 Map of Wellsville

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Wellsville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1957
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1957

About this map

Wellsville serves as the primary hub of this eastern Kansas landscape, situated at the junction of significant transportation and drainage networks during the mid-1950s. The town's grid is bisected by the Santa Fe and Topeka Atchison railroad, which historically dictated the commercial orientation of the community. Rural life is anchored by a series of local institutions, including the Rock Creek Sch and West Windy Sch, alongside several community burial grounds like the Wellsville Cem and Walnut Creek Cem.

The terrain is defined by a dense network of meandering waterways, including Walnut Creek, Rock Creek, and Hickory Creek, which carved distinct valleys through the countryside. Evidence of local industry is scattered throughout the township boundaries, from an active Quarry to numerous Oil Wells and a Sewage Disposal site south of the main settlement. The map provides an detailed view of the infrastructure that supported these farming and extraction-based communities just before the major expansion of modern highway systems.