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1966 Map of Anna

Name: 1966 Topographic Map of Anna
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

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Anna State Hospital occupies a sprawling campus in the northwest corner of this Union County landscape, serving as a primary landmark just north of the city center. The 1960s street grid of Anna shows a developed core with named thoroughfares like Chestnut St and Davie St, while the Illinois Central Gulf railroad tracks cut a diagonal path through the terrain toward the southern settlement of Balcom.

Outside the urban limits, the landscape transitions into a network of creek bottoms and ridges defined by the Cache River and Cypress Creek. Genealogists will find a wealth of burial sites and country churches scattered through the hills, including Mission Chapel Cem, Trinity Cem, and Big Creek Ch. Modern infrastructure is represented by a Drive-in Theater and a long-distance Pipeline, contrasting with older features like the Roaring Spring and local quarries.