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1960 Map of Lagrange

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Lagrange
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

About this map

The town of Lagrange serves as the focal point of this Northern Indiana landscape, shown here as a bustling county seat featuring the County Hospital and a Sewage Disposal plant. To the north, the Howe Military Sch grounds are prominent near the community of Howe, while the waters of the Fawn River and Pigeon River wind through the countryside. This update includes purple revisions reflecting the mid-twentieth-century expansion of residential areas and the appearance of several Trailer Parks near the town center.

Local history is preserved in the numerous cemeteries and rural landmarks, such as the Oaklawn Cem and the Reid-Eash Airport. The drainage patterns of Mc Manus Ditch and Wenger Ditch reveal the agricultural engineering of Clay and Van Buren townships. From the small settlement of Emma to the rail lines of the Penn Central, the map traces the intersection of industry and rural life in the Great Lakes region.