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1971 Map of South Pekin

Name: 1971 Topographic Map of South Pekin
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

About this map

The Mackinaw River snakes across a landscape defined by the sandy flats of Sand Prairie and the productive bottomlands of Spring Lake. This early 1970s survey captures the agricultural heart of central Illinois, where the villages of South Pekin and Green Valley serve as anchors for the surrounding farmsteads. The terrain is marked by distinctive glacial features like The Mound and Little Mound, which stand in contrast to the engineered drainage of the Quiver Ditch system.

Industrial and transport corridors are prominent, including the Pekin Municipal Airport and a dense network of rail lines like the Chicago and North Western and the Gulf Mobile and Ohio. For local historians, the map provides precise locations for several rural burial grounds, such as Old Sand Prairie Cem and Langston Cem, alongside small landmarks like Union Ch, documenting the community fabric just before the expansion of modern agribusiness shifted the rural layout.