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1925 Map of Leitchfield

Name: 1925 Topographic Map of Leitchfield
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1925
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1925

About this map

The Leitchfield area of central Kentucky is defined by a dense network of early 20th-century rural infrastructure, where the Illinois Central railroad cuts through the north, connecting Millwood and Caneyville. This 1920s-era landscape reveals an agrarian society organized around dozens of local institutions, including the Myrtle Grove and Quisenberry schools. Small-scale resource extraction is evident at the Meredith Coal Bank near the Grayson and Edmonson county line.

Transportation routes like the Morgantown Road and Elizabethtown Road converge at the county seat, while the southern reaches of the map near Sunfish and Big Reedy are shaped by the winding drainages of Sunfish Creek and Bear Creek. Genealogists will find a wealth of family-named landmarks and remote community centers such as Shrewsbury, Sadler, and Rabbit Flat Church, which anchored these upland communities before modern highway development bypassed them.