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2015 Map of Pittsburg

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Pittsburg
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Pittsburg stands as the primary urban center in this detailed Crawford County survey, showing the city's extensive gridiron street plan and its role as an educational hub through the Pittsburg State University campus. The surrounding landscape is a patchwork of smaller industrial and residential settlements that grew alongside the region's coal mining heritage, including Frontenac, Chicopee, and Dunkirk. The map reveals a dense distribution of local heritage sites, particularly cemeteries like Mount Olive Cemetery and Highland Park Cemetery, which serve as vital markers for genealogical research in these tight-knit communities.

Waterways like First Cow Creek and Sugar Creek thread through the terrain, which is otherwise dominated by a rigid section-line road network. To the north and west, smaller locales such as Capaldo and Lone Oak appear near the Atkinson Municipal Airport, illustrating the early 21st-century balance between the established municipal infrastructure of Pittsburg and the rural character of its neighbors.