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1929 Map of Brisbane

Name: 1929 Topographic Map of Brisbane
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1946
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1946

About this map

The small railroad settlement of Brisbane serves as a central junction on this mid-century survey of New Lenox and Frankfort townships. The landscape is defined by the intersection of major rail corridors, including the Elgin Joliet and Eastern, Michigan Central, and the Wabash line, which together facilitated the movement of goods and passengers across Will County. Agricultural life is evidenced by the distribution of local institutions like Murphy Sch, Spencer Sch, and Hinspeter Sch along the section lines.

Running diagonally across the southeast corner, the Old Indian Bdy provides a historical marker of early surveying and land treaty history. Most of the terrain is characterized by the drainage basins of Jackson Creek and Jackson Branch, though a significant portion of the sheet remains marked as an Unsurveyed Area, reflecting the ongoing nature of topographic mapping during this period of partial culture revision.