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1900 Map of Danville

Name: 1900 Topographic Map of Danville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1910
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1910

About this map

Danville serves as the industrial and transportation hub of this late 19th-century landscape, where a dense network of iron rails converges from every direction. The city's growth is tied to the path of the Vermilion River, which winds through the territory alongside the Chicago and Evansville Line and the Toledo and Kansas City Line. Outside the main city, industrial and residential clusters like Westville, Catlin, and Batestown mark the importance of mining and rail siding in Vermilion County.

The terrain is defined by the erosion patterns of the Middle Fork Vermilion River and North Fork Vermilion River, creating distinct geological features such as Hungry Hollow. This 1897 survey, published in 1910, captures the Illinois-Indiana border region just as the expansion of the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis R.R. was cementing the area's role as a major Midwestern freight corridor.