2018 Map of Normal East

About this map

Normal and Bloomington anchor the southern portion of this landscape, showing the dense residential grid and the sprawling campus of Illinois State University. This 2018 survey illustrates how the urban core transitions into a structured agricultural periphery, with smaller outlying settlements like Towanda, Hudson, and Kerrick connected by a network of rural routes. The drainage patterns of the central Illinois prairie are visible through the winding courses of Big Slough, Money Creek, and Sixmile Creek, which carve through the township sections toward larger reservoirs such as Lake Bloomington. For the local historian, the map preserves the location of several significant burial grounds, including Havens Cemetery, Hudson Cemetery, Bishop Cemetery, and Pennell Cemetery, which serve as quiet landmarks of the region's 19th-century pioneer settlement and family genealogy.