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1953 Map of Benton

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Benton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

Fishing Creek and the Reading railroad line define the valley floor in this mid-century survey of Columbia and Lycoming Counties. The landscape is a network of ridges and hollows, where small agricultural hamlets like Rohrsburg, Greenwood, and Stillwater are connected by a web of state roads including Pa. 115. The geography is deeply personal, with terrain named for local families such as O'Brien Hill, Kramer Hill, and Davis Hill.

Institutional anchors of the rural community are clearly marked, from the Greenwood Union Ch to the Consolidated Sch and the Rohrsburg Cem. North of the larger settlement of Benton, the terrain becomes increasingly complex with narrow drainage paths like Devil Hole Run and Rickard Hollow cutting through the uplands. This record documents the transition from a nineteenth-century milling economy, represented by Coles Mill, to a modern road-based infrastructure.