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1944 Map of Delaware

Name: 1944 Topographic Map of Delaware
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1944
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1944

About this map

The Scioto River valley and its surrounding central Ohio farmlands are documented here during the mid-1940s, showing a landscape defined by small rail-stop communities and intersecting county lines. The city of Delaware serves as a major hub where the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads converge. Northward, the village of Waldo and the town of Prospect sit along a network of rural roads that includes the historic Treaty Line Road.

Genealogists and local historians can trace numerous rural institutions, from the Newhouse Cemetery near Warrensburg to a dense collection of country schools such as Cherry Ridge Sch and Panhandle Sch. The map reveals a highly developed agricultural grid dotted with family-named corners like Bartlett Corners and Smith Corners, illustrating the distribution of farmsteads before the era of late-century suburban expansion.