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1916 Map of Fords Ferry

Name: 1916 Topographic Map of Fords Ferry
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1916
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1916

About this map

Ohio River shoreline developments and the complex borderlands between Illinois and Kentucky define this 1914 survey. The topography is dominated by the prominent bluffs of Battery Rock and the riverfront settlement of Cave in Rock, a site deeply tied to early river navigation and frontier history. This preliminary edition highlights a landscape dotted with localized commerce and education, featuring rural landmarks like Fraileys Store and Peters Cr Store.

A high density of one-room schoolhouses such as Double Box School, Love School, and Tower Rock School reflects the distributed nature of early twentieth-century rural life in Hardin and Crittenden Counties. The river channel itself is marked by significant landforms including McKinley I and Plew I, illustrating the shifting course of the waterway before modern engineering fully altered the banks of the lower Ohio.