1965 Map of Monroe

About this map

Middletown and Monroe anchor this 1965 survey of the Butler and Warren County line, a landscape defined by the expansion of southwestern Ohio's suburban and industrial corridors. The map records the early footprints of large-scale institutions like the Lebanon Correctional Institution and the Lebanon-Warren County Airport, set against older rural crossroads and family settlements. Genealogists will find a wealth of local landmarks, from the Mound Cemetery and Mt Pleasant Cemetery to vanished-feeling locales like Blue Ball and Beedles Station. This edition, with purple-tinted updates from the 1980s, documents the shift from agrarian townships like Turtle Creek and Lemon toward a more modern landscape. The drainage patterns of Dicks Creek and Shaker Creek provide a natural framework for tracing the area's development before more recent urban sprawl altered these historic property lines and community centers.