1966 Map of Danville NW

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The industrial and recreational landscape of Vermilion County centers on the Middle Fork Vermilion River and the expansive Harmattan Strip Mine. This 1966 survey, photorevised in the late 1970s, illustrates the profound impact of surface mining on the local topography, particularly around Kickapoo State Park where a series of water bodies like Clear Pond, Emerald Pond, and Hidden Pond occupy former mining sites. The urban expansion of Danville reaches into the southeast, showing civic infrastructure such as the Naval Reserve Center, several local schools including Edison Sch, and the Danville Country Club. Transportation networks are dominated by the New York Central Railroad corridor, which services the small settlements of Hillery and Wyton. Genealogists will find a high density of rural burial grounds, such as Dodson Cem, Thurman Cem, and Pentecost Cem, documenting the area's agricultural roots before mining and suburbanization transformed the terrain.