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1979 Map of Farmer City South

Name: 1979 Topographic Map of Farmer City South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

Lake Clinton dominates the central landscape of this late-1970s survey, its waters filling the valley of Salt Creek across De Witt and Piatt counties. This era of transformation is captured just as the reservoir altered the local topography, yet the map preserves the older rural patterns of the Blue Ridge region. To the north, Farmer City serves as a primary hub, intersected by Conrail lines and residential growth near the Golf Course.

Genealogists and local historians will find a high density of small family and community burial grounds, including McCord Cem, Barnes Cem, and Campground Cem. Educational and religious foundations of the era are visible at Moore High Sch and the De Land-Weldon High Sch, alongside small rural settlements like Fullerton, Parnell, and Weldon. The map also documents industrial infrastructure of the late twentieth century, noting several Pipelines and an Oil Field near Pargell.