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2013 Map of London

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of London
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

The county seat of London serves as the central hub of this Madison County landscape, where the urban grid gives way to a highly engineered agricultural periphery. The surrounding plains are defined by an extensive network of drainage systems, including Richmond Ditch, Chenoweth Ditch, and Dun Ditch Number 1, which manage the water levels for established family operations like Peart Farms and Witt Farms. This drainage infrastructure supports a productive landscape that contrasts with the recreational waters of Lake Choctaw to the west and the marshy edges of Madison Lake in the southeast.

Transportation corridors like the National Pike and US Highway 40 SW cut through the terrain, connecting smaller settlements such as Summerford and Lafayette. For those researching family history, the map preserves the locations of numerous small burial grounds, from the Somerford Old Cem to the Upper Gwynne Farm Cem, offering precise locations for sites often overlooked in broader regional studies.