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2010 Map of Powersville

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Powersville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

Powersville serves as the central hub of this rural Missouri landscape, where the local road network converges near the Powersville Cemetery. The terrain is defined by the branching waterways of the Medicine Creek system, including the Middle Fork, East Fork, and West Fork Medicine Creek. These streams carve through a agricultural region dotted with small, named settlements such as Wyreka and Galesburg.

Genealogists will find a high concentration of burial sites throughout the quadrangle, including Greer Cemetery, Banta Cemetery, Edmond Cemetery, and Medicineville Cemetery, which speak to the area's deep-rooted pioneer families. The presence of Warsaw in the northern portion and the grid of township roads like Amherst and Birch provide clear markers for tracing historical property boundaries and the distribution of early settlements in northern Putnam County.