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1939 Map of Belmont

Name: 1939 Topographic Map of Belmont
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1961
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1961

About this map

Friendship and Belmont anchor this section of Allegany County during the late 1930s, a landscape defined by the winding course of the Genesee River and an extensive network of rural school districts. The map documents a transition in transportation, showing the Erie and Pittsburg Shawmut and Northern railroads alongside emerging state routes. A high density of rural schoolhouses, from Moulton Sch to the White Hill Sch, suggests a community structure still largely decentralized and tied to localized farming and industry.

Elevations vary significantly across the terrain, notably at Alma Hill and through the Clarksville Notch, which dictated the path of early roads and rail lines. The presence of numerous benchmarks in settlements like Richburg and Bolivar reflects the precise engineering required to navigate the area's hills. This survey, revised by the Army Map Service, captures the region just before mid-century modernization altered many of these smaller community nodes.