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1972 Map of Brookville

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Brookville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

About this map

The Whitewater River valley defines the character of this Franklin County landscape, where the confluence of the West and East Forks meets at Brookville. The town's historic infrastructure is well-documented, showing the Penn Central railroad lines and vestiges of the nineteenth-century canal system, including the Whitewater Canal Memorial Lock and an Aqueduct near Yellow Bank Creek. Cultural and religious life is marked by several rural congregations and burial grounds, such as St Michaels Ch, Maple Grove Cem, and Oak Forest Ch.

Hydrological changes are a central theme, with the prominent Brookville Lake appearing in the northeast and a Flood Victims Memorial south of town serving as a reminder of the river's power. The terrain transitions from the river bottomlands to named heights like Boundary Hill and Yellow Bank Hill, while scattered settlements like Oak Forest and Stavetown dot the surrounding agricultural uplands during this early 1970s period.