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1962 Map of Boswell

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Boswell
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

The agrarian landscape of Benton County is meticulously documented here, dominated by the expansive Parish Grove and Hickory Grove townships. In the early 1960s, this area of western Indiana remained a crucial rail junction, where the New York Chicago and St Louis and Chicago and St Louis lines converge at the town of Boswell. These railroads supported a network of smaller shipping points and elevators, such as the storage bins at Dunn.

Community life centers on rural institutions like St Marys School in Dunnington and Zion Church, alongside small settlements like Freeland Park and Talbot. The engineering of the prairie is evident in the extensive drainage network, featuring named waterways like Gretencord Ditch and Finigan Ditch that allowed for productive farming. A solitary radio tower and several gravel pits mark the modest industrial footprint in an otherwise deeply agricultural region.