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2019 Map of Steubenville West

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Steubenville West
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Steubenville sits at the eastern edge of this Jefferson County landscape, where the urban street grid gives way to the winding ridges and deep hollows of the Appalachian Plateau. The 2019 data illustrates a region defined by its complex topography and industrial legacy, notably at the Cardinal Fly Ash Retention Reservoir near Brilliant. A network of tunnels including Gould Tunnel, Adams Tunnel, and Hunter Tunnel shows the historical engineering required to move people and goods through the dissected terrain of Chestnut Ridge and Buckingham Ridge.

Family and community history are preserved in numerous sites such as Tent Church Cem, Cross Creek Presbyterian Cem, and Oliver Cem. Outside the main city, smaller settlements like Wintersville, New Alexandria, and Fernwood are connected by a web of county roads and creek valleys. The conversion of former infrastructure into recreation is evident in the Brooke Pioneer Rail-Trail along the Ohio West Virginia border, tracing the path of once-vital transportation lines along the river corridor.