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1930 Map of Chandlerville

Name: 1930 Topographic Map of Chandlerville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

The Illinois River and Sangamon River dominate this landscape, creating a complex network of backwater lakes and sloughs that shaped local life between the wars. This era shows a river-and-rail economy in transition, where the Chicago and Illinois Midland railroad cuts through the eastern prairie while older riverfront settlements like Bath and Snicarte maintain their connections to the water via Bath Chute and the Snicarte Slough.

Genealogists will find a high density of rural institutions, including dozens of named schools such as Howarth Sch, Jordan Sch, and Oakdale Sch scattered across the uplands of Hickory and Lynchburg townships. The map records specific family-named sites and landmarks like Shick Shack Hill and Dick Sol, alongside the grid of State Highway 78 as it enters Chandlerville from the south. The convergence of the rivers creates a distinctive landscape of named water bodies like Grand Lake and Moscow Lake, reflecting a period before modern levee and drainage projects fully altered the bottomlands.