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1936 Map of Falmouth

Name: 1936 Topographic Map of Falmouth
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1946
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1946

About this map

The Licking River and its various forks carve a winding path through this portion of Pendleton and Harrison counties, dictating the development of rural Kentucky in the mid-1930s. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad tracks parallel the water, connecting the county seat at Falmouth to southern points like Berry and Boyd. This area is characterized by a dense network of one-room schools and country churches that anchored community life before the era of district consolidation.

Genealogists will find a wealth of specific landmarks, from the St Johns Ch in the north to the Richland Sch near the southern border. Smaller, perhaps vanished hamlets such as McKinneysburg, Catawba, and Kelat are clearly mapped alongside family-named landmarks like McMillan Sch and Galloway Sch. The intricate topography of ridges like Locust Grove illustrates the challenging terrain that early settlers and surveyors like J.M.Rawls navigated to establish these homesteads.