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1922 Map of Spruce Knob

Name: 1922 Topographic Map of Spruce Knob
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1922
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1922

About this map

Spruce Knob stands as the high point of this high-altitude landscape surveyed in the early 1920s, a period when rural schoolhouses and small post offices defined community life in the Allegheny Mountain region. The mapping reveals a dense network of mountain settlements and infrastructure, including the logging-era operations near Thornwood and Winterburn Station. Local education was decentralized, as evidenced by the distribution of numerous neighborhood institutions like Hinkle School, Dam School, and Stark School.

Transport and topography are intertwined along the many forks of the North Fork Potomac River and Gandy Creek. Features like The Pigs Ear and Blister Swamp highlight the unique local nomenclature of the Monongahela National Forest interior. For genealogists, the map preserves the exact locations of family-named landmarks such as Rexrode and Colaw Knob, alongside remote social hubs like Ridge Church and the Hunting Ground School situated along high ridges.