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1985 Map of Greenup

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Greenup
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1985
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1985

About this map

The Embarras River carves a winding path through this portion of east-central Illinois, defining the landscape between the townships of Sumpter and Greenup. In the mid-1980s, the village of Greenup serves as a local hub, situated at the junction of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad and the primary road network near the Fairground. The map documents a rural economy in transition, where an Abandoned R R corridor runs parallel to active lines, and scattered Oil Well sites dot the fields near Hidalgo and Crooked Creek.

Smaller settlements and named locales like Jewett, Dees, and the curiously named Walla Walla provide specific points of interest for those tracing family history in the borderlands of Cumberland Co and Jasper Co. From the heights of Liberty Hill to the drainage of Muddy Creek, the land is divided into a precise grid, though the erratic course of the river frequently disrupts the geometry of the surrounding farms.