1951 Map of Westerville

About this map

Westerville sits along the southern bends of Clear Creek in this mid-century survey of Custer County. The landscape is defined by the high, flat expanse of the French Tableland to the northwest, which drops away into a network of draws and creek valleys. This era shows a dense rural infrastructure of one-room schoolhouses, such as Cherryvale Sch, Copsey Sch, and Hanna Corners Sch, distributed to serve the farming families in the Westerville and Douglas Grove townships. For genealogists, the map is particularly valuable for locating family burial grounds including French Tableland Cem and Dry Valley Cem, alongside small rural hubs like Weissert and the Pederson Ranch. The distribution of these schools and cemeteries across the townships reflects a settled agricultural community before the consolidation of rural districts.