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1901 Map of Fostoria

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of Fostoria
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

Fostoria serves as a major transportation hub at the beginning of the twentieth century, where the borders of Wood, Hancock, and Seneca counties converge. The town's significance as a rail center is evident from the concentration of lines radiating in every direction, including the Baltimore and Ohio, New York Chicago and St Louis, and the Lake Erie and Western. These tracks cut through a predominantly agricultural landscape organized into townships like Loudon, Hopewell, and Washington.

Smaller village life is well-documented in outlying settlements such as New Riegel, Bascom, and West Independence. The drainage of the land is defined by the East Branch Portage River and Wolf Creek, while the southern reaches of the map show the emerging tracks of the Bucyrus Division (Sandusky Line) near Berwick. This survey preserves the exact location of rural crossroads and farmsteads before mid-century modernization altered the local infrastructure.