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1983 Map of Forreston South

Name: 1983 Topographic Map of Forreston South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1984
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1984

About this map

Forreston anchors the northern boundary of this Ogle County landscape, where the Illinois Central Gulf railroad cuts a straight north-south line through the heart of the prairie. The map captures a transition between the organized grid of Lincoln and Maryland townships and the meandering drainage basins of Elkhorn Creek and the Leaf River. Small rural clusters like Haldane and Maryland serve as local focal points, surrounded by family-named infrastructure such as Springdale Road and Haldane Road.

Genealogical interest is found in the scattered rural burials at Haldane Cem, West Branch Cem, and Fairmont Cem, which alongside the Church of the Brethren speak to the religious and social fabric of this farming community in the early 1980s. The landscape is defined by its waterways, including the West Branch Pine Creek and the winding Goose Hollow, which carved paths through the terrain long before the township lines were surveyed.