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1960 Map of East Palestine

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of East Palestine
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

The industrial and rural landscape of Columbiana County comes into sharp focus through the extensive Strip Mines that dominate the terrain surrounding East Palestine. This 1960s era, photorevised in the 1970s, reveals a complex network of resource extraction and transport. The Penn Central and Youngstown and Southern railroads bisect the territory, facilitating the movement of coal and goods through communities like Negley and New Waterford.

Genealogists can find significant local landmarks, including several family-named burial grounds like Mason Rich Cem and the New Waterford Cem. The map documents a transition in land use, where the rugged extraction sites sit adjacent to established community centers like Unity and newer residential developments such as the area surrounding Lake Tomahawk. From the Brick Ch in the north to the Mt Zion Ch near Rough Run, the sheet preserves the locations of vital social institutions that served this Appalachian plateau borderland.