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1905 Map of Jamestown

Name: 1905 Topographic Map of Jamestown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1923
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1923

About this map

Jamestown stands as the industrial and population hub of this southwestern New York landscape, situated at the confluence of several vital waterways including Moon Creek and the Cassadaga Creek. The city's growing grid is flanked by the Erie R. R. and the Pittsburgh and Jamestown Line, illustrating its early role as a rail-driven manufacturing center. To the east and south, the map reveals a shift toward agrarian and valley settlements, where Conewango Creek snakes through the lowlands past Frewsburg and Fentonville near the New York Pennsylvania Boundary Line.

A notable engineering detail of the era is the State Drainage Ditch in the town of Conewango, which highlights early twentieth-century efforts to manage the marshy bottomlands of the valley. From the upland hamlet of Ellington to the village of Falconer, the map documents a network of rural post offices and small river towns like Waterboro and Ivory before modern highways bypasses changed the local geography.