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1918 Map of Battle Creek

Name: 1918 Topographic Map of Battle Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1918
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1918

About this map

Battle Creek serves as the industrial and transportation nexus of this 1917 survey, where the Grand Trunk and Michigan Central railroads converge. The landscape is defined by a dense network of rural infrastructure, featuring numerous family-named crossroads such as Mobres Corners, Agnew Corners, and Morgan Corners. The convergence of the Battle Creek and the Kalamazoo River (labeled here as the Kalamazoo River valley) supported early mill operations, evidenced by the Upper Millpond and Millpond.

Education in this era was highly localized, with distinctively named institutions like the Little Brick School, Cobblestone School, and Checkered School serving their respective districts. To the north, the town of Assyria sits near the border of Barry and Eaton Counties, while the Mich Elec Ry line illustrates the importance of interurban electric rail travel connecting Urbandale to the city center.