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1958 Map of Sunman

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Sunman
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1994
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1994

About this map

Sunman and its surrounding rural communities in Ripley and Dearborn Counties are captured here during a period of steady mid-century transition. The landscape is defined by the New York Central railroad corridor, which links the villages of Weisburg and Sunman, facilitating the regional movement of goods through this agricultural heartland. The map reveals a dense network of local landmarks essential to 1950s community life, including the Township Sch, St Johns Ch, and the County Home.

Stream valleys such as West Fork Tanners Creek and North Hogan Creek carve through the terrain, separated by named high ground like Ester Ridge and Hogan Hill. For genealogists, the survey preserves the locations of several small burial grounds like Ransom Cem and family-named intersections such as Hubbells Corner and Negangards Corner, providing a precise record of late 20th-century rural Indiana before further modernization of the local road network.