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2019 Map of Defiance East

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Defiance East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

The confluence of the Maumee River and the Auglaize River anchor this 2019 survey of the area surrounding Defiance. The city center is densely detailed, featuring landmarks such as the Defiance County Courthouse and the campus of Defiance College. This landscape is defined by its deep agricultural and cemetery history, with numerous family and church burial grounds scattered across the township lines, including Saint Michaels Catholic Cem and Poplar Ridge Cem.

Downriver to the northeast, the settlement of Independence sits along the banks of the Maumee, while the community of Jewell is situated further inland near Brubaker Cr. The geography reflects a managed waterway system with features like Tanby Ditch and Mattock Ditch draining the surrounding fields into the larger river basins. Notable for local historians, several large cemetery tracts like Riverview Memory Gardens and the combined Pleasant Bend and Ayersville Cem provide specific points of interest for genealogical research.