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1940 Map of Kellyland

Name: 1940 Topographic Map of Kellyland
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1963
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1963

About this map

The St Croix River defines the international boundary between Maine and New Brunswick in this 1940 survey, documenting a landscape of water power and timber interests. The settlement of Kellyland and the nearby Grand Falls point to the industrial utilization of the river’s descent, while the upper reaches are characterized by a series of rocky descents and rapids known locally as rips, including Rocky Rips, Meetinghouse Rips, and Canoose Rips.

Away from the main river channel, the terrain is marked by extensive wetlands and tributary systems such as Haycock Bog and Hound Brook Lake. Isolated outposts like Crocker Camp appear alongside these waterways, illustrating the remote nature of Washington County's interior during the pre-war era. The map provides a precise record of the shoreline and flowage areas before later twentieth-century developments altered the riparian landscape of the borderlands.