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1948 Map of Columbia Falls

Name: 1948 Topographic Map of Columbia Falls
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

The Columbia Falls settlement serves as the focal point of this coastal Washington County landscape, situated where the Pleasant River winds through the southern reaches of the map. This 1948 field survey, photorevised in the late 1970s, captures a rural Downeast Maine economy defined by its water systems and early rail infrastructure. The Central Maine railroad line cuts an east-west path across the center of the sheet, connecting Jonesboro Station to the interior.

North of the main village, the terrain rises toward Milton Mtn and Patten Hill, while the landscape is heavily marked by extensive wetlands like Big Heath and Marst Heath. These bogs and heaths sit between prominent ridges such as Kaylor Ridge and Sewall Ridge Brook, illustrating the complex drainage patterns of the Chandler River and Indian River basins. Small clusters of development at Centerville and the Central District indicate the sparse but established settlement pattern of the mid-20th century.