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1960 Map of Lansing

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Lansing
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

Wheeling Creek carves a deep valley through this industrial landscape, where the Baltimore and Ohio railroad corridor links coal-patch settlements like Barton, Blaine, and Lansing. Extensive Strip Mines and visible Tailings across the ridges of Cole Rain and Richland townships speak to the region's intensive mineral extraction history in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Local genealogy is well-documented through numerous family and community burial grounds, including the Linwood Cemetery, High Ridge Cem, and the Belmont Memorial Park Cemetery. To the south, McMahon Creek flows toward the river industrial hub of Bellaire, passing through the communities of Neffs and McClainville. The map illustrates a transitional period of infrastructure, showing the old National Road alongside modernizing radio and microwave towers that began to dot the high ground like High Ridge.