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1915 Map of Fort Recovery

Name: 1915 Topographic Map of Fort Recovery
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1957
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1957

About this map

Fort Recovery serves as the focal point of this 1915 survey, situated at the intersection of the Lake Erie and Western railroad and significant regional roads like the Greenville Road. The landscape is defined by its agrarian order, punctuated by a dense network of country schools including the Lockridge Special School, Heinz School, and Bunker Hill School. These institutions, spaced at regular intervals, suggest the communal structure of Mercer and Darke counties during the early twentieth century.

The Greenville Treaty Line bisects the territory, providing a historical anchor to the early American frontier. The hydrology of the region is centered on the Wabash River and Mississinewa River, with smaller tributaries like Limberlost Creek and Stony Cr branching through the townships of Washington and Gibson. While settlements like Macedon and Monterey appear as established nodes, a significant portion of the western sheet remains designated as an Unsurveyed Area, reflecting the limits of the contemporary topographic effort.