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1998 Map of Mattoon West

Name: 1998 Topographic Map of Mattoon West
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2002
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2002

About this map

The Mattoon municipal landscape and its surrounding rural townships dominate this late-twentieth-century study, where industrial and educational infrastructure meet the central Illinois prairie. The northeastern quadrant is defined by the city's expansion, including the Water Treatment Plant and the campus of Lake Land Jr College. These developed areas contrast with the hydraulic network of the Little Wabash River and its tributaries, which feed into significant local reservoirs like Paradise Lake and Lake Mattoon.

Smaller crossroads and rail-oriented settlements such as Gays, Etna, and Lipsey anchor the outlying agricultural zones across the county lines of Moultrie, Shelby, and Coles. The transportation corridor is marked by the Conrail line and the presence of several well fields, illustrating the regional reliance on managed water resources for both the growing city of Mattoon and the established farming communities of Paradise and Ash Grove.