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1927 Map of Townville

Name: 1927 Topographic Map of Townville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

The agrarian and creek-fed landscape of Crawford and Venango Counties appears here in high detail, surveyed in the late 1920s. The region is defined by a dense network of township roads connecting numerous small settlements like Townville and Guys Mills. Local education and community life are prominently represented through an exhaustive mapping of rural schoolhouses, including the Lamb Sch, Steuben Sch, and Hickory Cors Sch, which anchored these crossroads communities before the era of school consolidation.

Transport and industry follow the water, with the Pennsylvania railroad serving Tryonville Sta along the banks of Oil Creek. The presence of landmarks like Sugar Lake and Mystic Park suggests early 20th-century recreational sites, while names like Black Ash Cors and Dempseytown reflect the deep-rooted family and local identifiers that shaped western Pennsylvania's township identity during this period.