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2015 Map of Galesburg East

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Galesburg East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Galesburg and its surrounding prairie landscape are defined here by a dense grid of residential streets and essential local institutions. The campus of Knox Coll anchors the southern portion of the city, while the eastern expansion includes East Galesburg and the historic community of Knoxville. Water features such as Rice Lake, Glenwood Lake, and the Purington Lakes interrupt the agricultural regularity of the countryside, providing a sense of the local drainage patterns formed by Middle Cr, Cedar Cr, and Haw Cr.

Genealogists will find a significant concentration of burial sites, including the Saint Marys Cem, Knoxville Cem, and the small Butterfield Family Cem. These sites, along with the Swedish Cem and Alm's House Cem, offer a clear spatial record of the different communities and families that settled this portion of Knox County. The layout reflects a developed Midwestern hub with its major thoroughfares like E Main St and E Carl Sandburg Dr connecting the urban core to the outlying townships.