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1953 Map of West Line

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of West Line
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

About this map

The borderlands of Cass County, Missouri, and Miami County, Kansas, are defined here by the north-south corridor of the Kansas City Southern railroad. This transportation spine connects the rural village of Cleveland with the namesake town of West Line to the south. The landscape is characterized by its agricultural roots and early community infrastructure, visible in the distribution of one-room schoolhouses like Pleasant Valley Sch and Pleasant Prairie Sch.

Genealogists will find a wealth of local landmarks, from the West Union Ch to several family-named burial sites including Frazee Cem, Corinth Cem, and Glenwild Cem. The terrain is etched by the meandering East Fork and Middle Creek, which feed into the South Grand River in the southeast. This survey, updated with late-twentieth-century photorevisions, tracks the subtle shifts in property boundaries and the persistence of the original township lines of Union and West Dolan.