1902 Map of Boonville

About this map

Boonville serves as the primary hub in this turn-of-the-century survey, anchoring a landscape defined by its transition from water-based transport to rail. The northern reaches of the Canal (Abandoned) and the Millersburg Canal indicate an earlier era of commerce, while the Evansville Division and the Indianapolis and Evansville Division of the Southern Railway highlight the emerging industrial connectivity of the time. The topography is marked by distinct rises such as Big Ditney Hill and Dyson Knob, which break the drainage patterns of Pigeon Creek and Squaw Creek. Scattered rural settlements like Elberfeld, Lynnville, and Buckskin show the established agricultural footprint of Warrick and Gibson counties, while smaller locales like Wheatonville and Daylight provide specific points of interest for those tracing family roots in southwestern Indiana.