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2011 Map of Saint Bernice

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Saint Bernice
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

The borderlands of Indiana and Illinois unfold across this landscape, dominated by the winding path of Brouilletts Creek and its many tributaries. In this rural stretch of Edgar and Vermillion counties, the community of Saint Bernice serves as a primary hub, flanked by the smaller settlements of Jonestown and West Clinton. The area's agricultural and industrial heritage is quietly visible through features like the Shirkie Mine Pond and the clustered Horseshoe Lakes, which provide a distinct contrast to the grid-patterned fields of Clays Prairie.

Genealogists will find this sheet particularly valuable for its density of family and community burial grounds. Over a dozen distinct sites are documented, ranging from the Saint Aloysius Cemetery and Stafford-Crimmons Cemetery in the southwest to Igo Cemetery and Littlefield Cemetery in the north. The presence of Blanford and Kidley further illustrates the scattered nature of local settlement patterns established along the region's waterways, including Crabapple Creek and Coal Creek.