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1959 Map of Monroe City

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Monroe City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1960
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1960

About this map

Monroe City serves as the focal point of this late 1950s survey, situated where the Chicago Burlington and Quincy and Wabash railroads intersect. The town's grid is well-defined, showing residential growth near North Park and South Park, along with civic landmarks like the High Sch and Washington Sch. Beyond the city limits, the landscape transitions into the agricultural and creek-fed terrain of Warren and Saline townships, where rural life is anchored by neighborhood centers such as Stone Sch and Mt Vernon Sch.

The map reveals a transition from the urban rail hub to the more dissected drainage of South Fork North River and its various tributaries like Cobb Creek and Sees Creek. These waterways dictate the placement of smaller outliers like Ely and Hassard. For those tracing local heritage, the inclusion of St Judes Cem and Cobb Cem provides specific points of interest for identifying early settlement patterns across the Marion, Ralls, and Monroe county lines.