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1933 Map of Mount Vernon

Name: 1933 Topographic Map of Mount Vernon
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

Mount Vernon serves as the central hub of this Southern Illinois landscape, where multiple rail lines including the Southern and Southwestern converge. The surrounding Jefferson County countryside is defined by a dense network of rural infrastructure, featuring numerous schools and churches such as Old Shiloh Ch and Union Chapel. The surveying captures the transition from the settled town grid to the surrounding prairies and creek bottoms, including the Wolf Prairie area.

Smaller settlements like Bluford, Dix, and Opdyke are connected by a web of unimproved and light-duty roads, highlighting the importance of the rail-and-road network for the regional agricultural economy. Water features like the Mount Vernon Reservoir and various branches of Casey Fork provide insight into the local topography and drainage patterns. Genealogists will find significant value in the detailed plotting of family-named schools and small cemeteries like Chapel Cem and Atkinson Cem, which document the community's early 20th-century footprint.