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1960 Map of Portage

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Portage
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

The industrial and residential growth of Northwest Indiana is captured here as the expanding outskirts of Gary meet the shoreline of Lake Michigan. The landscape is a dense network of major transport corridors, including the New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio, and Pennsylvania railroads, which cut through the sandy terrain and low-lying marshes. Older land divisions remain visible through the Old Indian Treaty Boundary, which slashes diagonally across the topography near Ogden Dunes.

Smaller established communities such as Garyton, Crisman, and McCool provide a local counterpoint to the larger city grids of East Gary and Hobart. Local history is preserved in several burial grounds, including Robbins Cem and Janes Cem, while the Seven Dolors Shrine stands as a distinct cultural landmark in the southeast. The natural drainage of Willow Creek and Duck Creek continues to define the local geography amidst the encroaching infrastructure of the mid-century Midwest.