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2016 Map of Princeton East

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Princeton East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

Princeton serves as the focal point of this western Kentucky landscape, where the town's grid meets the branching valleys of Big Spring Br and Eddy Creek. The geography reveals a legacy of transportation and rural commerce, most notably along the Old Railroad Bed Rd which snakes through the terrain past Walche Cut and into the small community of Claxton. This corridor, once vital for moving coal and timber, now anchors a network of family-named landmarks and small settlements like Scottsburg and McGowan.

Genealogists will find a high concentration of burial sites scattered across the ridges and hollows, from the McConnell Cem and Wadlington Cem in the south to the Dance Nichols Cem near the northern boundary. The landscape transitions from the developed vicinity of the Princeton-Caldwell County Airport to the water-rich bottomlands around Otter Pond and Goose Creek, illustrating the enduring agricultural character of Caldwell County.