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1959 Map of Racine

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Racine
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

The urban and industrial centers of Racine and Kenosha anchor this late 1950s survey of the Lake Michigan shoreline. While the cities show dense street grids and prominent infrastructure like waterworks and sewage disposal plants, the surrounding townships of Mount Pleasant and Pleasant Prairie remain heavily defined by an intricate network of country schools and rural cemeteries. Small crossroads and hamlets such as Sylvania, Truesdell, and Ives Grove dot the landscape, many situated along the rail corridors of the Chicago and North Western and the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroads.

Evidence of the region's educational and social fabric is found in the many named schoolhouses, including Bullamore Forks Sch and Star Harmony Sch, alongside smaller airfields like the Air City Airport. The transition from the developed lakefront to the inland agricultural drainages of the Root River and Des Plaines River reveals a landscape in the midst of suburban expansion while still maintaining its deep-rooted rural character.