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1957 Map of Cottage Grove

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Cottage Grove
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1960
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1960

About this map

Cottage Grove serves as the primary hub in this late 1950s depiction of Lane County, where the Coast Fork Willamette River meets the Row River. The landscape is defined by a dense network of rural schools, including Twin Oaks School, Lynx Hollow School, and La Bleu School, highlighting the distributed nature of local education before further consolidation. Along the eastern corridor, the Southern Pacific railroad and Highway 99 parallel the river, connecting settlements like Creswell and Saginaw through the broad Camas Swale Creek valley.

A notable transition is visible as the terrain rises toward Royal Ridge and Spencer Butte, where the Siuslaw River headwaters emerge. The map documents mid-century infrastructure like the Drive-in Theater and multiple Covered Bridge locations, alongside the industrial footprint of a Quarry and various gravel pits. This survey captures a moment of established valley agriculture and timber-adjacent communities just as modern highway developments were beginning to alter the rural character of the southern Willamette Valley.