1962 Map of Monticello

About this map

Monticello serves as the primary hub of this Green County landscape, where the Illinois Central and the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroads intersect. The village is characterized by its proximity to the West Branch Sugar River and features including the High Sch, Highland Cem, and a local Water Tank. As the waterways of Burgy Creek and Silver Creek feed into the Little Sugar River, the surrounding townships of Mount Pleasant and Washington reveal a rural infrastructure of scattered hamlets like Schultz and Stearns. The map also captures local industry and resource extraction through several Quarry sites and a Gravel Pit, providing a detailed look at the agricultural and industrial character of southern Wisconsin in the early 1960s with updates from a decade later.