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1959 Map of Luthersburg

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Luthersburg
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1972
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1972

About this map

Luthersburg and the surrounding rural townships of Clearfield County are defined by a complex network of resource extraction and transit in this mid-century survey. The landscape is carved by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Penn Central, which supported a heavy industrial footprint of strip mines and tipples. The presence of Coal Hill and numerous mining sites suggests the era's reliance on the bitumous coal seams underlying the Laurel Ridge.

Away from the industrial corridors, the community life of the area is anchored by scattered landmarks such as St Johns Ch in Rockton and St Peters Ch near the headwaters of Limestone Run. Large tracts of the Moshannon State Forest and State Game Lands No 77 provide a sharp contrast to the developed areas, while the Du Bois Reservoir stands as a significant hydrological feature in the northeast, fed by Dressler Run and Laborde Branch.