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1958 Map of Little York

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Little York
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1993
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1993

About this map

Little York and its surrounding rural townships sit at the transition between the lowlands of the Muscatatuck River and the high, broken ridges of southern Indiana. This 1958 survey captures the agricultural and timber-based landscape before modern expansion, dominated by large tracts like the Jackson-Washington State Forest and the Clark State Forest. The map is particularly dense with features for genealogists, showing numerous country churches and family-named cemeteries such as McKnight Cem and Grace Cem.

Deep ravines like Bane Hollow and Rutherford Hollow cut through the western hills, where a Lookout Tower once provided a vantage point over the forest canopy. Small crossroads communities including Pumpkin Center and New Philadelphia are documented with their original school and church footprints, providing a clear record of the mid-century settlement pattern in Washington County and Scott County.