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1960 Map of New Washington

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

USGS Topo · Published 1961

About this map

Agricultural patterns and historical boundaries define this 1960s study of north-central Ohio, where the village of New Washington serves as the primary hub. The map captures a transition in transportation infrastructure, showing the Akron Canton and Youngstown railroad in operation through the north while the Pennsylvania Railroad Grade runs southeast through Tiro. This era reveals a landscape still deeply rooted in its early nineteenth-century surveying legacy, marked by the Congress Lands North of Old Seven Ranges and its intersection with the First Principal Meridian.

Local history is preserved in the placement of numerous rural burial grounds such as St Bernard Cem and Goodwill Cem. The terrain is drained by a network of waterways including Honey Creek and Broken Sword Creek, which weave through the townships of Cranberry and Auburn. Small settlements like North Auburn, Dekalb, and Annapolis are documented at a time when rural roads like Donnenwirth Road and Scott Road connected these tight-knit farming communities.