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2015 Map of Hillsboro Upper Village

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

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Bradford Center and Hillsboro Center anchor this landscape, where the town lines of Hillsborough and Merrimack counties meet amidst a series of prominent hills and wetlands. The terrain is defined by significant elevations such as Knights Hill and Rowes Hill, with the southern portion of Lake Massasecum and the winding Contoocook River providing key water features. The map illustrates a dense network of early roads and family-named landmarks, including the curiously named Mt Misery in the east.

For genealogists and local historians, the sheet is particularly valuable for its documentation of numerous small burial grounds. Scattered across the hillsides are the Presbury Cem, Bradford Center Cem, and Kimball Corner Cem, among others. These sites, along with smaller settlements like Hillsboro Upper Village, reveal the 19th-century settlement patterns that persisted into the modern era, showing how community life was distributed across the brooks and ridges of this New Hampshire region.