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1954 Map of Eminence

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Eminence
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1955
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1955

About this map

The Louisville and Nashville railroad corridor anchors the northern section of this 1954 survey, defining the industrial and social reach of Eminence. This agricultural region on the border of Henry and Shelby counties is characterized by a dense network of upland drainage, where Fox Run, Burks Branch, and Clear Creek carve through the landscape. The map reveals a mid-century rural infrastructure centered on community nodes like Mulberry, which features its own Mulberry Sch and nearby Mulberry Creek.

Social and religious life is well-documented through the presence of several country churches and institutions, including Pleasant View Ch and the Shady Grove Sanitorium located just south of the main town. The cartography captures a landscape of small family farms and woodlots before significant modern development, preserving the locations of numerous unnamed rural cemeteries and the original path of the Little Kentucky River as it flows toward the northwest corner of the quadrangle.