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1956 Map of Cleveland

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Cleveland
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

About this map

The National Road and the Conrail railroad form a dense corridor of 20th-century development through this portion of Hancock and Rush counties. The small settlements of Cleveland and Stringtown are concentrated along this east-west axis, illustrating how transportation routes dictated the growth of rural Indiana. To the north, Willow Branch serves as a secondary focal point, while the southern reaches near Westland retain a more dispersed agricultural character punctuated by numerous family and community burial grounds, such as Hinchman Cem and Caldwell Cem.

Several small country churches, including Curry Chapel and Nameless Creek Ch, are scattered across the townships, reflecting the social fabric of the era. The presence of Pope Airfield and the Greenfield Country Club indicates a landscape transitioning from purely agrarian use to one accommodating recreational and small-scale aviation infrastructure. Waterways like Brandywine Creek and Nameless Creek provide the natural drainage that defines the topography of these prairie-bordering townships.