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1970 Map of Three Oaks

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Three Oaks
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

About this map

The village of Three Oaks anchors this study of the Michigan-Indiana borderlands, where the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad corridor cuts through a landscape defined by the winding Galien River. The transition from the rural township of Chikaming into the northern reaches of La Porte County, Indiana, is marked by a high density of local landmarks, including the sprawling Warren Woods State Park and family-named cemeteries like Riverside Cem and Forest Lawn Cem.

A network of tributary waters including Spring Creek, Beaverdam Creek, and Dowling Creek feeds the river system, creating a pocketed geography of wetlands and small lakes such as Klutes Lakes and Spicer Lake. The presence of numerous Gravel Pits and a Sandpit near New Troy suggests the region's active extraction industries, while scattered landmarks like the Harbert Ch and Olive Branch Ch reveal the established social fabric of these border townships during the early 1970s.