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1955 Map of Mc Graw

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Mc Graw
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

McGraw serves as a primary hub of settlement in this Central New York landscape, situated where Trout Brook flows west toward the Tioughnioga River. The map reveals a transition from the valley villages to the high ridges of Hicks Hill and Snyder Hill, where large tracts of land are designated as State Reforestation Area. These managed forests reflect mid-century land-use shifts as formerly cleared hill farms were reclaimed by the state.

Evidence of the region's earlier industrial and agrarian network is preserved in the placement of Maybury Mills and the surviving railroad grade following the brook valley. For genealogists, the sheet is particularly valuable for its documentation of numerous burial grounds, including the McGrawville Rural Cem, Maplewood Cem, and the remote Turner Cem. The lower portion of the map showcases the steep descent of Hoxie Gorge, a notable natural feature cutting through the township of Cortlandville.