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2013 Map of Cumberland

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of Cumberland
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

Cumberland serves as the central hub of this eastern Ohio landscape, situated where Muskingum, Guernsey, and Noble counties meet. The surrounding terrain is heavily defined by extensive industrial water management, specifically numerous ponds managed by the Ohio Power Company and Central Ohio Coal Company. These man-made features, such as Ohio Power Dam Number Two and Ohio Power Company Pond Mum-48, signify a landscape deeply reshaped by resource extraction and power generation infrastructure.

Rural life persists among these industrial footprints in smaller settlements like Renrock, Zeno, and Coal Hill. The map provides significant genealogical value through its many small cemeteries, including Ark Springs Baptist Cem and Renrock Methodist Protestant Cem, which anchor the history of these communities. Waterways like Mays Fork and Dyes Fork thread through the hills, following the natural drainage patterns that predate the modern industrial utility ponds.