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1944 Map of Octa

Name: 1944 Topographic Map of Octa
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1944
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1944

About this map

Jeffersonville and Jamestown anchor this agricultural landscape during the mid-1940s, a region defined by an exceptionally dense network of one-room schools and small rural settlements. The map reveals a highly structured social geography where nearly every few miles hosts a named educational site, from Slaughter Sch in the north to Lone Elm Sch and School No 19 in the south.

Transportation corridors like the Detroit Toledo and Ironton RR and the Baltimore and Ohio RR cut across the drainage of Rattlesnake Creek and Paint Creek, connecting hubs like Octa and Milledgeville. This survey, updated from aerial photography, captures a transitional era for rural Ohio, showing established post offices like Selden PO alongside the emerging road system including Federal Road and Courthouse Road.