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1969 Map of Danese

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Danese
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1991
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1991

About this map

Babcock State Park dominates the northern reaches of this Fayette County survey, where the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad corridor traces the deep incision of Glade Creek. The landscape reveals a complex industrial history of extraction, with numerous Strip Mines and Mines Air Shafts peppered across the ridges, particularly around the settlements of Pittman and Landisburg. These coal operations are supported by infrastructure like the Conveyors and Tipples that connect the mountain workings to the rail lines below.

Local community life is centered around rural junctions such as Danese, home to the Danese Sch and several churches including Greenvalley Ch. To the south, Layland and Crickmer sit along the drainage of Hollow, illustrating the typical West Virginia pattern of small mountain settlements clustered near water and work. Genealogists will find many family-named landmarks and smaller burial sites like Anderson Cem situated near Maplewood, providing a detailed look at the human footprint amidst the intensive mining of the New Haven district.