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2016 Map of Atwater

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Atwater
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

Rootstown and Edinburg anchor the northern reaches of this Portage County landscape, where the agricultural grid is increasingly intersected by modern infrastructure. The presence of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy near Rootstown signals the area's development as an educational and medical hub. Genealogists will find a significant distribution of burial grounds, from the Old Cem and Homeland Cem in the west to the Edinburg Cem and Atwater Cem further south and east.

Water management is a defining characteristic of the terrain, evidenced by an extensive network of named drainage features such as Reed Ditch, Hudson Ditch, and Atwater Ditch. These man-made channels work alongside natural systems like Barrel Run and Willow Cr to drain the low-lying areas between Schultz Lake and Muzzy Lake. The small-scale aviation history of the region is noted at Gay Airport, located just north of the Atwater settlement.