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1958 Map of Ironton

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Ironton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1959
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1959

About this map

The Ohio River corridor serves as the industrial and transportation backbone of this 1958 survey, where the heavy infrastructure of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad tracks the southern bank. This era showcases a developing landscape of hilltop residential expansions like Russell Heights and Flatwoods rising above the river valley. The presence of the Ashland-Boyd County Airport and Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital indicates the mid-century modernization of this tri-state border region.

Local history is preserved in a dense network of family and community landmarks, including the Indian Run Ch and numerous small burial grounds such as Rude Cem, McDowell Cem, and Baldridge Cem. These sites, alongside older education centers like Caroline Sch and Advance Sch, provide a detailed look at the original rural settlements before the suburban growth of Russell and Raceland transformed the Greenup County hills.