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2018 Map of Leesville

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Leesville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

Hopkins Park and the smaller settlement of Leesville anchor this portion of the Illinois-Indiana state line, where the landscape is defined by an extensive network of drainage infrastructure. This drainage system, including Best Ditch, Redden Ditch, and the Riner Houseworth Ditch, reflects the late 19th and early 20th-century efforts to reclaim the marshy wetlands of the Kankakee River basin for agricultural production. Natural watercourses like Spring Cr and Little Beaver Cr wind through the township lines, though their paths are frequently intercepted by the rigid grid of county roads.

The boundary between Kankakee and Iroquois counties in Illinois meets the Indiana state line here, creating a complex jurisdictional intersection. Near the eastern edge, Morgan Cem stands as a local landmark for genealogical research. The map illustrates a transitional landscape where residential pockets in Hopkins Park give way to broad agricultural tracts, with property divisions following the Public Land Survey System sections such as t30n r11w and t31n r10w.