
The city of Effingham serves as the focal point of this late 20th-century survey, situated at the busy crossroads of major interstate interchanges and regional infrastructure. The landscape south of the city reveals a transition from urban development to rural township grids, where the Little Wabash River meanders through the western townships of Summit and Jackson. This waterway, along with Salt Creek and Brush Creek to the east, dictates the natural drainage patterns that shaped the area's early agricultural settlement.
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1950 · Effingham
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1951 · Effingham
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1953 · Teutopolis
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1953 · Sailor Springs
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1956 · Edgewood
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1958 · Decatur
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · Belleville
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1961 · Decatur
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1962 · Belleville
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1985 · Hord
USGS Topo · 1:24,000