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1943 Map of Adams

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Adams
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

The village of Adams and the agricultural lands of southern Jefferson County are captured here during the early 1940s, a period when the Central New York RR served as a vital transit corridor through Adams Center. The landscape is defined by the winding paths of the North Branch Sandy Creek and South Branch Sandy Creek, which navigate a terrain of drumlins and lowland features like the expansive Adams Swamp.

Genealogists will find a wealth of localized data, from small community clusters like Lyon Corner, Wardwell, and Smithville to a series of numbered rural schoolhouses and family-associated burial grounds including Grow Cem and Saxe Cem. The mapping, notably executed by the Tennessee Valley Authority for the Army Corps of Engineers, provides a precise look at the transition from the high ground of Prospect Hill and Pine Hill down to the steep ravines of Totman Gulf.