1962 Map of Paintsville

About this map

Paintsville serves as the focal point of this Johnson County landscape, where the Levisa Fork makes a deep bend through the Appalachian coal country. In the early 1960s, the region's economy was clearly defined by the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and a dense network of mines and gas wells that dot the hillsides. The map captures an era of post-war community development, showing leisure sites like the Paintsville Golf Course and a Drive-in Theater alongside traditional centers of local life like Stafford Ch and Jennys Creek Sch.