
Rural Valley and the neighboring industrial settlements of Yatesboro and NuMine anchor this survey of Armstrong County’s coal and gas country. The landscape is defined by the narrow valleys of Cowanshannock Creek and its tributaries, where the Baltimore and Ohio railroad corridor tracks the waterway to serve local extractive industries. Numerous gas wells and Strip Mine operations are scattered across the uplands, illustrating the intensive resource development that shaped these communities during the late 1960s.
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3 editions found
1901 · Rural Valley
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1902 · Indiana
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1902 · Elders Ridge
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1903 · Rural Valley
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1904 · Elders Ridge
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1909 · Smicksburg
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1938 · Smicksburg
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1939 · Smicksburg
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1953 · Pittsburgh
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1954 · Pittsburgh
USGS Topo · 1:250,000