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1958 Map of Bowling Green North

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Bowling Green North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

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MaumEE River currents shape the northwest corner of this Wood County landscape, where Granger Island and Missionary Island sit mid-stream near the settlement of Waterville. The interior reflects the orderly grid of the Twelvemile Square Congress Lands Reservation, a region defined by agricultural utility and early rail transport. The Baltimore and Ohio and Norfolk and Western railroads bisect the territory, connecting small hubs like Haskins and Tontogany.

Education and institutional growth are prominent in the southeast, anchored by the expanding campus of Bowling Green State University and the University Airport. Researchers can trace rural lineages through numerous community landmarks, including Plain Ch, Otsego Sch, and several established burial grounds such as Oak Grove Cemetery and Union Hill Cem. Scattered oil wells and a Quarry near Sugar Ridge Road point to the local extraction industries that supplemented the area's farming economy during the mid-century.