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1979 Map of Thorp

Name: 1979 Topographic Map of Thorp
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

The city of Thorp serves as the central hub of this northern Clark County landscape, where the Soo Line railroad intersects with a grid of rural dairy lands and timbered river bottoms. The drainage of the Eau Claire River and its North Fork dominates the western half of the quadrangle, flanked by numerous Gravel Pits that suggest a local economy tied to road building and aggregate.

Genealogists will find this sheet particularly valuable for its density of burial sites, including the St Hedwig Cem, St Bernard Cem, and the denominational Norwegian Cem and Germanian Cem. These sites, along with the Townhall in Reseburg township, reflect the ethnic and community foundations of the area during the late 1970s. Industrial and civic infrastructure is noted through the Sewage Disposal Ponds and a Gaging Station on Goggle-eye Creek.