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1960 Map of New Riegel

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of New Riegel
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1961
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1961

About this map

New Riegel sits at the center of this rural Seneca County landscape, serving as a hub for the surrounding townships of Loudon, Hopewell, Big Spring, and Seneca. The map captures a transition in agricultural land management, highlighted by the diagonal path of the Old Indian Treaty Boundary cutting across the western sections. This historic line, alongside a network of section lines and fence rows identified from 1959 aerial photography, illustrates the rigid survey patterns that defined Ohio's Congress Lands.

Transportation and community life are anchored by the New York Central railroad, which links the smaller settlements of Berwick, Frenchtown, and Adrian. Local history is preserved in the placement of the Townhall and several rural burial grounds, including Reisz Cem and Jerusalem Cem. Drainage is provided by the branching systems of Wolf Creek and Thorn Run, which wind through a mosaic of woodlots and cultivated fields characteristic of the region in the early 1960s.