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2012 Map of Grove City

Name: 2012 Topographic Map of Grove City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2012
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2012

About this map

Grove City serves as the central hub of this central Illinois landscape, which is defined by a rigid grid of agricultural roads and scattered industrial interests. The map documents an area deeply involved in resource extraction, evidenced by the Roby East Oil Field in the northwest and the Mount Auburn Consolidated Oil Field in the northeast. These fields represent the subterranean economy that exists alongside the traditional farming operations like Robinson Farm.

For those tracing local history or family lineage, several small cemeteries are carefully plotted among the fields, including Hinckle Cem near the northern border and Bethel Baptist Cem to the south. The small settlement of Bolivia sits in the northwest corner, while the presence of Hardy Airport indicates the infrastructure required to service this rural Christian County sector. The inclusion of Buckhart Dutch Reform Cem highlights the early religious and cultural groups that settled this prairie land.