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1960 Map of Alfred

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Alfred
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1961
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1961

About this map

Wayne National Forest covers the northeastern corner of this landscape, where the ridges of Athens and Meigs counties meet. In the early 1960s, the area was defined by a patchwork of small agricultural settlements and a growing extraction economy, evidenced by numerous oil and gas wells and gas wells scattered across Dutch Ridge and Jasper Hill. The Middle Branch Shade River winds through the center of the quadrangle, passing the community of Alfred and the historic Bucks Mill site.

Local history is well-preserved through numerous rural landmarks, including the Covered Bridge over Pratts Fork and a network of family and community burial grounds such as Barnhill Cem, Bentz Cem, and Bishop Cem. The map reveals the intersection of five townships—Lodi, Carthage, Bedford, Orange, and Chester—illustrating the dense distribution of country churches like St Johns Ch and Bethel Ch that served these ridge-top and valley communities.