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2019 Map of Bay View

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Bay View
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

The Pennsylvania and Maryland state line bisects this landscape, separating Chester County from Cecil County. This transition from the southern Pennsylvania piedmont into the northern reaches of Maryland is defined by a dense network of country roads and scattered rural settlements such as Chrome, Blueball, and Bay View. Water from Jordan Run and Barren Brook feeds into the larger Little Elk Creek system, which carves through the undulating terrain.

Genealogists will find a significant concentration of religious and memorial sites, including the Mount Olivet Methodist Protestant Church Cemetery and the Griffith African United Methodist Cemetery near Cedar Hill. A notable landmark of local engineering, the Gilpins Covered Bridge spans the water near Gilpins Falls, while the High Valley Airport sits just south of Zion. The area’s agrarian character is preserved through numerous named farm roads and small crossroads communities like Mechanic Valley and Hickory Hill.