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1936 Map of Oakland

Name: 1936 Topographic Map of Oakland
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

The Embarrass River meanders through the heart of this East Central Illinois landscape, its wooded banks providing a sharp contrast to the dense network of rural schools and family farms in Sargent and Oakland townships. Settlement is anchored by the rail junctions at Hindsboro, Oakland, and Charleston, where the Pennsylvania and Chicago and St Louis railroads intersect the agricultural grid.

Genealogists will find a wealth of specific landmarks, from the St Omer Cem and Antioch Cem to a remarkably high density of country schools like Dickey Sch, Hanson Sch, and Martin Box Sch. These small schoolhouses, spaced roughly every two miles, illustrate the early 20th-century educational system before district consolidation. The terrain transitions from the prairie flats near Filson and Kemp to the more varied topography around Greasy Point and the Scattering Fork.