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1961 Map of Busseyville

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Busseyville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

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Lake Koshkonong dominates the southern landscape of this 1961 survey, where its complex shoreline is defined by Stinkers Bay, Gilbert Bay, and Olsons Bay. The northern portion of the lake is marked by several distinct residential and historical areas including Koshkonong Manor, Carcajou, and the whimsically named Vinnie Ha Ha. Ancient history is etched into the terrain at Sylvan Mounds and Koshkonong Mounds, indicating a long-established human presence near the water long before the agrarian settlements of Oakland and Busseyville took shape.

Institutional life centers around small country schoolhouses like Lakeview Sch and Royce Sch, while the Chicago and North Western railroad cuts through the southeastern corner near the Rock River. To the north, the terrain rises toward Lake Ripley and Red Cedar Lake, a landscape characterized by numerous Gravel Pit operations and scattered woodlots that break up the rolling farmland of Jefferson County.