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1972 Map of Castile

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Castile
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1985
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1985

About this map

Silver Lake serves as the central anchor of this Wyoming County landscape, where recreation and industry met in the early 1970s. The eastern shore is densely developed with the seasonal community of Fairview and the Silver Lake Drive-in Theater, while the village of Perry sits just beyond the northern Silver Lake Outlet. Transport history is preserved through the complex rail junctions at Silver Lake Junction, where the Baltimore and Ohio and Erie-Lackawanna lines converge near the village of Silver Springs.

Local civic life is visible in the placement of the Letchworth Central High Sch near Castile, and the rural character is maintained by scattered settlements like Gainesville and Sowerby Corners. For the genealogist, the map details several dedicated burial grounds, including St Marys Cem and Maple Grove Cem. The presence of the Perry-Warsaw Municipal Airport and Perry Raceway reflects the region's mid-century modernization within a legacy agricultural and rail-oriented valley.