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1961 Map of Stone Creek

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Stone Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1963
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1963

About this map

Small agricultural and mining communities define this portion of Tuscarawas County during the early 1960s. The landscape is heavily marked by extractive industries, with numerous Strip Mines, Gas Wells, and Oil Wells peppered across the townships of Auburn, York, and Jefferson. The valley of Stone Creek serves as a primary transportation corridor, carrying the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad through the namesake village and past the settlement of Blackband.

Local genealogy is well-preserved through a network of country churches and family-named burial grounds, including the Deitz Cem and St Johns Ch Cem. The presence of several Kilns near Yorktown suggests a local industrial focus on clay or brick production, common to this region of Ohio. Surveyed just before significant modern highway expansion, the map reveals an intricate system of rural roads connecting scattered farmsteads and creek valleys like Crooked Run and Evans Creek.