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1958 Map of Lafayette

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Lafayette
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

Lafayette serves as the focal point of this Macon County survey, showing a landscape defined by deeply dissected ridges and a network of named hollows including Negro Hollow and Wildcat Hollow. The map reveals a dense distribution of rural family-named cemeteries such as Crowder Cem and Brockett Cem, alongside local institutions like the New Bethel Ch and the Orphanage near Maple Grove.

Modern infrastructure of the late 1970s is overlaid in purple, highlighting the expansion of Lafayette with a new Drive-in Theater, a Golf Course, and developments around the Lafayette Municipal Airport. This record of growth contrasts with the older, established rural settlements at Haysville and Oakdale, providing a clear view of how the transition from traditional farming communities to a more suburbanized regional hub occurred between the late 1950s and the 1970s.