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2022 Map of Owensville

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Owensville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Owensville serves as the primary hub of this Gibson County landscape, where the flat agricultural plains of the north transition into more dissected terrain to the south. The northern reaches are defined by an extensive network of drainage features such as Lillard Ditch, McCarty Ditch, and Saunders Ditch, which converted former wetlands like Broad Pond into productive farmland. The map preserves several smaller settlements, including the historic community of Lyles and the hamlet of Johnson.

Genealogists will find a high density of burial sites throughout the township, ranging from the large Owensville Cem and Sand Hill Cemetery to smaller family-named plots like Mauck Cem, Skelton Cem, and Clark Cem. The hydrography is particularly intricate, with winding natural features like Coffee Bayou and Skelton Cr intersecting a rigid grid of rural roads, illustrating over a century of land management and drainage engineering in southwest Indiana.