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1957 Map of Wilsonville

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Wilsonville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

Wilsonville serves as the focal point of this late-1950s survey, positioned along the northern bank of Beaver Creek. The village layout is intricately detailed, showing a central grid with a Water Tank and a Cem on its western outskirts, reflecting the development patterns of a Nebraska farm-to-rail hub. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad cuts a straight line through the valley, paralleling the creek and defining the local transport economy.

South of the village, the landscape shifts into the townships of Lynden, Sherman, and Rockton, where the terrain becomes increasingly complex. High ridges separate the northern Beaver Creek drainage from the southern Sappa Cr and Wildcat Creek valleys at the Kansas-Nebraska border. This map illustrates the transition from organized settlement to the more dispersed agricultural land of Crystal and Rock Branch as the plains roll toward the state line.