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2012 Map of Johnston City

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

USGS Topo · Published 2012

About this map

Johnston City serves as the central hub of this Southern Illinois landscape, where the grid-like residential streets transition into a periphery of industrial remnants and rural settlements. This 2012 survey illustrates a region defined by its coal-mining heritage, evidenced by the dense concentration of historical burial grounds such as Lakeview Cem, Becker Cem, and Allen Hunter Cem. The presence of smaller communities like Shakerag, White Ash, and Spillertown reveals the polycentric development of the area, where clusters of homes often formed around specific mine shafts or company nodes.

Water plays a critical role in the topography, with Lake Cr and Pond Cr winding through the northern sections, while Sweet Lake and Lake Number 5 lie near the eastern edge. To the south, the whimsical name of Dog Walk sits near the Williamson Co Pkwy, and Crenshaw Crossing marks a notable transit point in the southwest. For genealogists, the map is particularly valuable for its precise locations of family-named cemeteries like Stroud Sehoskey Cem and Ferges Cem, which remain as fixed points in an evolving rural landscape.