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1951 Map of Kosmosdale

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Kosmosdale
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1951
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1951

About this map

The Ohio River forms a wide, meandering boundary between the hills of Indiana and the expanding infrastructure of Kentucky in the early 1950s. On the Kentucky side, the Dixie Highway and the Illinois Central railroad anchor a corridor of small communities including Kosmosdale and Orell. This area is characterized by a transition from industrial and river-oriented settlements to the controlled lands of the Fort Knox Military Reservation and the Knob Creek Naval Reservation to the south.

Across the water in Indiana, the landscape of Posey and Taylor townships is marked by numerous rural institutions such as Glenwood Sch and St Peters Ch. The terrain here is defined by sharp ridges like Rabbit Hash Ridge and the winding course of Mosquito Creek. This map captures the region just as modern highways began to reshape the older river-town economy of places like West Point and Evans Landing.