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1958 Map of Little York

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Little York
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1959
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1959

About this map

Little York and the surrounding townships of Gibson, Vernon, and Franklin appear in this late 1950s survey as a landscape of rural schoolhouses and family-named landmarks. The topography is defined by the Muscatatuck River to the north and the complex drainage of numerous hollows, including Bane and Rutherford Hollow, which carve into the hills of the Jackson-Washington State Forest. A high concentration of hilltop churches and cemeteries, such as Mt Carmel Ch and its adjacent Cem, suggests a community deeply rooted in these ridgelines.

The small settlements of Pumpkin Center and New Philadelphia are connected by a network of light-duty roads that navigate around the steep terrain of Deep Gap. Notable for genealogists are the well-distributed burial grounds like McKnight Cem and Riddle Cem, while the presence of the Township Sch and a Lookout Tower reflect the civic and conservation infrastructure of Washington and Scott Counties during this period.