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1986 Map of Lake Champlain South

Name: 1986 Topographic Map of Lake Champlain South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1989
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1989

About this map

Lake Champlain serves as the central corridor for this mid-1980s landscape, dividing the high peaks of Adirondack Park in New York from the Green Mountains of Vermont. The map captures a period of established college towns and industrial nodes, notably the iron-mining heritage around Mineville and Witherbee near Port Henry. To the east, the Vermont shoreline is punctuated by the growth of Burlington and South Burlington, with Middlebury College anchoring the southern interior.

Transit patterns are defined by the Delaware and Hudson RR and Central Vermont RR, tracing the lake's edges through historic crossings like Chimney Point State Park. The survey detail preserves specific civic landmarks such as the Courthouse in Elizabethtown and the State Prison, alongside unique geological features like the Weybridge Cave State Natural Area. From the summit of Mount Marcy to the waters of Shelburne Bay, the map documents the region's duality of protected wilderness and settled valley life.