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2013 Map of Bicknell

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of Bicknell
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

Bicknell serves as the central hub of this Knox County landscape, where the grid of city streets gives way to an extensive network of agricultural drainage. The town's local geography is defined by City Lake and its proximity to Indian Cr, which snakes through the southern territory. To the north and east, smaller settlements like Freelandville and Edwardsport anchor the rural reaches, with the latter positioned near a sharp bend in the White River.

The terrain reveals a diverse set of local identifiers, from the distinctive Barefoot Nation Hills in the southwest to the broad Mills Prairie and the elevated Scudder Hill. A sophisticated system of man-made waterways, including Tilley Ditch, Kuhn Ditch, and Purdy-Marsh Ditch, illustrates the intensive management of the land to support the region's farms. These ditches converge and feed into larger natural systems like Maria Cr, tracing a history of landscape engineering designed to reclaim and utilize the fertile Indiana plains.