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1902 Map of Indiana

Name: 1902 Topographic Map of Indiana
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1902
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1902

About this map

Indiana serves as the central hub of this 1900 survey, shown just after the turn of the century as a dense grid of streets and rail connections. The Pennsylvania R R and its Indiana Branch define the industrial corridor, linking the county seat to outlying settlements like Homer and Graceton. The landscape is etched by an intricate network of waterways, including Two Lick Creek and Yellow Creek, which carved the valleys that dictated early settlement patterns.

Local landmarks like Kunkle Hill and Coleman Hill rise above small villages and crossroads such as Mechanicsburg, Brush Valley, and Kintersburg. The map captures the region when small-scale agriculture and coal-related transport were beginning to shape the rural landscape, preserved here in the transition from traditional farmsteads to more structured mining and railroad towns. For those tracing family history, the survey names numerous small clusters like Sample Run, Ideal, and Greenville.