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1898 Map of Dunlap

Name: 1898 Topographic Map of Dunlap
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1926
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1926

About this map

Illinois River bottomlands and the rising bluffs of Peoria County define this 1891 landscape, surveyed when steam rail was the primary engine of local growth. The topography reveals a sharp contrast between the flat upland of La Prairie and the deeply dissected ravines leading down to the river valley near Mossville. Settlement patterns follow the iron, with the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad cutting across the northern reaches through Edelstein, while the Rock Island and Peoria Railroad anchors the central town of Dunlap.

Smaller hamlets like Wady Petra, Stark, and Orange Prairie represent the late nineteenth-century agricultural network before modern highway consolidation. In the southwest, the Burlington and Quincy R. R. follows the winding course of Kickapoo Creek, connecting the village of Kickapoo to the broader regional economy. This map serves as a detailed record of the Peoria-area hinterlands just as the transition from pioneer-era tracks to major rail corridors was complete.