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1961 Map of Ohio

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Ohio
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

Ohio sits at the heart of this landscape where agricultural tradition met a changing industrial reality in the early 1960s. The northern portion of the quadrangle is heavily marked by Strip Mine operations, particularly concentrated near Deepwater Cem and Dunning Cem. These excavations dominate the terrain around the St Louis San Francisco railroad corridor, illustrating the scale of resource extraction in this corner of the Missouri Ozarks.

South of the mining activity, the rural character remains intact through a network of small churches and schools that anchored the local community. Significant landmarks such as Pleasant Valley Ch and the Valley Center Sch appear alongside several family-named burial grounds like Westfield Cem. The geography is defined by its drainages, with Bear Creek, Copper Creek, and Little Monegan Creek carving through the townships of Chalk Level and Fairview.