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1956 Map of Lake City

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Lake City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

The town of Lake City serves as the hub of this mid-1950s landscape, situated along the eastern shore of Lake Missaukee. The surrounding terrain is a mosaic of public lands and scattered rural communities including Pioneer, Stittsville, and Aetna. The influence of the logging and land-use history is evident in the vast tracts of the Houghton Lake State Forest and named wetlands like Scatuse Marsh and Dead Stream Swamp.

Resource extraction and fire management are visible through the presence of the Butterfield Oil Field in the southeast and the Reader Hill Lookout Tower. Transportation is defined by the Pennsylvania railroad line cutting through the county, while local education and social life are anchored by landmarks like the Pioneer Sch and several country churches including Morey Ch and St Johns Ch. The map also identifies educational shifts, noting the Lamb Sch and Lakeside Sch as abandoned by this time.