1959 Map of Owensville

About this map

Owensville serves as the central hub of this southwestern Indiana landscape, where the flat agricultural plains of the north meet the more varied terrain of Montgomery township to the south. The map documents a complex drainage network vital to local farming, including McCarty Ditch, Saunders Ditch, and Brown DITCH, which channel water toward the Black River. A significant historical marker, the Old Indian Treaty Boundary, cuts across the northeast corner, reflecting the early 19th-century surveying that defined land ownership in Gibson County. Rural life is anchored by small settlements like Lyles and Skelton, and numerous family and community burial grounds such as Sand Hill Cem, Mauck Cem, and Clark Cem. The transition from the lowlands of the Patoka river bottom to the elevated ground of Sand Hill illustrates the geographical diversity that influenced local road placement, such as Blair Road and Loefler Road.