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1966 Map of Lick Creek

Name: 1966 Topographic Map of Lick Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

Shawnee National Forest dominates the rugged southern Illinois landscape, where the confluence of several county lines meets the emerging Interstate 57 corridor. This mid-1960s survey captures the area as the I-57 highway cuts a diagonal path through the timbered hills, forever changing the transit patterns between Lick Creek and Goreville. The map is particularly dense with genealogical sites, showing numerous family-named landmarks and rural congregations such as Mt Hebron Ch, Palestine Ch, and the Lick Creek Sch.

Water management and conservation are central themes, with the northern boundary defined by the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge and the fingers of Little Grassy Lake and Devils Kitchen Lake. To the southeast, the terrain transitions into the protected bluffs of Ferne Clyffe State Park, near where Buck Branch and Cedar Bluff provide significant topographic relief. For those tracing local history, the inclusion of several remote burial grounds like Old Pleasant Hill Cem and Wall Cem offers precise locations for sites often obscured by forest growth.