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2016 Map of Leroy

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Leroy
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

Leroy anchors the northern reaches of this survey, situated where the landscape transitions from established crossroads to the systematic drainage networks of the Kankakee River basin. This Indiana countryside is defined by its extensive water management, with numerous channels such as Singleton Ditch, Niles Ditch, and Bryant Ditch etched across the township boundaries to reclaim the low-lying terrain. These engineered waterways run alongside natural features like Stony Run, illustrating a century-long effort to transform the region's hydrology for agriculture.

Local history is preserved in the small clusters of Orchard Grove and Dinwiddie, which remain as distinct markers of earlier rural settlement. Genealogists will find the Plum Grove Cem and Orchard Grove Cem particularly valuable, as they provide fixed points for tracing family lineages in Lake County. The strict grid of the Public Land Survey System is interrupted only by the diagonal path of the interstate, cutting through former tracts like Southeast Grove and crossing the prominent north-south Range Line.