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2018 Map of Erwin

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Erwin
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

The La Moine River snakes through this portion of Schuyler County, defining a landscape of wooded bluffs and agricultural plateaus. Small rural hubs such as Littleton, Wayland, and Erwin serve as anchors for a network of township roads that follow the section lines and ridgelines. The concentration of family and community burial grounds, including Marlow Cem and Gray Cem near Erwin, as well as White-Oak-Cem and Taggart Cem, provides significant points of interest for genealogical research in this part of Illinois.

Drainage patterns are dominated by numerous creeks and branches, such as Spring Cr and Brushy Cr, which carve deep valleys into the terrain. Names like Freeman Mine Rd hint at the local extraction history that once supplemented the region's agricultural economy. The map also identifies remote stretches such as Inaccessible Acres Ln, illustrating the varying degrees of development across the rural township grid.