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2013 Map of Carthage

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of Carthage
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

Carthage and Arlington anchor this rural Rush County landscape, where the agricultural legacy of central Indiana is written in a complex network of drainage ditches and small streams. The town of Carthage sits at the confluence of Boyd Brook and Carthage Cr, near the larger Big Blue River. Further south, the Little Blue River winds past the communities of Henderson and Arlington, joined by family-named waterways such as Walker Ditch and Reddick Ditch.

Private aviation is represented by Small Field Airport north of Carthage and Stevens Farms Airport near the center of the quadrangle. The grid of country roads, including Walnut Ridge Rd and NRushville Rd, connects smaller hamlets like Farmers and Boyd. This survey documents a working landscape defined by traditional farmstead locations and the essential water management systems of the Blue River valley.