1974 Map of Lone Star

About this map

Mount Olive anchors the northern reaches of this Covington County terrain, where the Illinois Central Gulf railroad follows the high ground between Okatoma Creek and the western drainage basins. The landscape is defined by its rural network of churches and cemeteries, reflecting the dispersed agricultural settlement of the mid-1970s. From the County Foundation School in the north to the community of Lone Star in the south, the map reveals a pattern of ridge-top homesteads and small-scale resource extraction, including several claypits and gravel pits. Waterways like Little Terrible Creek and Leonards Mill Creek carve through the wooded hills, while prominent landmarks such as the Radio Tower and various pipelines indicate the modern infrastructure laid over this traditional landscape of family-named churches like Oak Vale Ch and Friendship Ch.