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1949 Map of Camp Grant

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Camp Grant
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

Camp Grant dominates the riverfront south of Rockford in this late 1940s survey, illustrating a landscape defined by military infrastructure and public land. The confluence of the Rock River and Kishwaukee River forms the geographic heart of the quadrangle, punctuated by Blackhawk Island and several protected areas including the Kishwaukee Forest Preserve and Killbuck Forest Preserve.

A network of steel rails, including the Chicago and North Western and Chicago Burlington and Quincy, connects the industrial southern outskirts of Rockford to the rural hinterlands of Winnebago and Ogle counties. Local educational and community markers are densely distributed, from the Starkey Cem and Sandy Hollow Golf Course to several country schoolhouses like Gunsaulus Sch and Scott Sch, which served the farming families of Cherry Valley.