Pinckneyville serves as the focal point of this Southern Illinois landscape, where the street grid of the town meets a complex network of reclaimed lands and water bodies to the south. The southern half of the map is dominated by Pyramid State Park, a territory defined by an intricate cluster of lakes including Cottonwood Lake, Beehive Lake, and Blackberry Lake. These numerous small water bodies, often separated by narrow strips of land like the Wesseln Cut, indicate a landscape heavily modified by historical surface mining activities common to the Illinois coal belt.
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1910 · Murphysboro
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1914 · Coulterville
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1916 · Campbell Hill
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1917 · Coulterville
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1918 · Campbell Hill
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1924 · Pinckneyville
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1926 · Pinckneyville
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1938 · Murphysboro
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1949 · Paducah
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1950 · Paducah
USGS Topo · 1:250,000