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1983 Map of La Prairie Center

Name: 1983 Topographic Map of La Prairie Center
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1984
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1984

About this map

La Prairie Center and Saratoga Center anchor this agricultural landscape in Marshall County during the early 1980s. The map reveals a community organized around rural institutions, featuring a local Townhall and several small religious landmarks such as Saratoga Ch and United Ch. The terrain is deeply etched by a network of waterways, including the winding course of Senachwine Creek and its tributaries like Scholes Branch and Mud Run, which define the drainage patterns across the townships of Saratoga and La Prairie.

Genealogists will find significant value in the documentation of several local burial grounds, including Center Cem, Mansfield Cem, and St Patrick Cem. These features, along with the section-line roads and dispersed farmsteads, provide a clear record of the area's mid-century rural development and settlement patterns before further modernization. The map's detail reflects the essential character of the Illinois prairie at the end of the twentieth century.