1916 Map of Pikeville

About this map

Pikeville sits at a prominent bend of the Levisa Fork, serving as the primary anchor for a landscape defined by deep-cut hollows and numerous mountain settlements. This 1914 survey captures the region just as the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad began to reshape the local economy, connecting coal and timber interests through stops like Caney Siding, Penny Sta, and Myra Sta. The map reveals a dense network of numbered schoolhouses, such as School No 25 and School No 8, which were central to rural life in Pike and Floyd Counties before modern consolidation. From the industrial activity at Weeksbury to the quiet presence of James Chapel near Shelby Creek, the sheet provides a meticulous record of early twentieth-century Appalachian settlement patterns along the Kentucky-Virginia border region, including the high plateau of the Flatwoods in the southeast.