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1971 Map of Easton

Name: 1971 Topographic Map of Easton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

About this map

The village of Easton serves as the primary hub for this central Illinois landscape in the early 1970s, where the Illinois Central railroad cuts a straight path across the flat prairie terrain of Sherman and Pennsylvania townships. This agricultural region is defined by an extensive drainage network, including the Central Ditch and Samuels Ditch, which manage the water levels of the low-lying plains.

To the south, the topography shifts toward the Sangamon River and its Bottoms, where the land becomes more varied with water bodies like Smith Lake and Revis Lake. Genealogists will find a high density of small burial grounds, such as Leases Grove Cem, New Hope Cem, and Big Grove Cem, which often represent the only remaining markers of the area's earliest nineteenth-century rural neighborhoods and settlement patterns near the river bluffs.