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2019 Map of Coal City

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Coal City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

The Eel River and the historical path of the Wabash and Erie Canal define the southern landscape of this region where Clay, Owen, and Greene counties meet. Small rural clusters like Coal City, Daggett, and Brunswick are connected by a grid of county roads, reflecting a late-nineteenth-century settlement pattern that persists into the present. The terrain is marked by numerous family and community burial grounds, including the Scafford Prairie Cem and Bullerman Cem, which offer significant data points for genealogists tracing local lineage.

Water management is a central theme of the landscape, seen in the channelization of the Howesville Ditch and the presence of Tapawingo Lake. These features, alongside the Lateral Number Four, illustrate the complex drainage and irrigation systems required to manage the low-lying river bottoms. The map provides a detailed view of these rural townships before any modern sprawling development, preserving the locations of outlying settlements like Hubbell and Johnstown along the county boundaries.