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Map showing the location of Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park in Topeka, Kansas. The park is a green square in a grid of city streets shown as gray lines. Surrounding areas are white, and highways are shown in red.

Extended Description

The city roads are mostly vertical or horizontal in this map. From the left to right, the roads that run mostly north-south include Fairlawn Road, Gage Boulevard, Washburn Avenue, Topeka Boulevard, Kansas Avenue, Western Avenue, and Monroe Street. The Kansas River winds across the top of the map. South of that and from the top down, the east-west running roads are 6th Avenue, 10th Avenue, Huntoon Street, 17th Street, 21st Street, and 29th Street.

Brown versus Board of Education National Historical Park is labeled in green text near the intersection of Monroe Street and 17th Street. Monroe School is also on that site. The State Capitol is two blocks north near the intersection of 10th Avenue and Topeka Boulevard, and Sumner School is one block north of that on Western Avenue.

Highways shown in red create a loose diamond shape across Topeka. Interstate 70 curves along the north edge of town under the river. Interstate 470, also labeled Kansas Turnpike (KTA), branches from Interstate 70 to curve under the south side of town and rejoin Interstate 70 along the right edge of the map. Interstate 70 continues off the map “To Junction City” to the left and “To Kansas City” to the right. State Route Alt 75 travels from the top center of the map down into town to pass the named sites and the park. Interstate 335 travels south from Interstate 470 and continues “To Wichita.”

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A scale near the lower left corner of the map measures distances of 1 kilometer and 0.5 and 1 mile.