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1927 Map of Townville

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

USGS Topo · Published 1927

About this map

Townville serves as the central hub for this late-1920s topography of Crawford and Venango Counties, characterized by a dense network of township roads connecting family-named crossroads and rural schoolhouses. The landscape is defined by the winding paths of Sugar Creek and Muddy Creek, which carve through the townships of Steuben, Troy, and Richmond. Small social centers like Guys Mills and Little Cooley appear alongside numerous specific local institutions, such as North Richmond Church and the Donation School.

The distribution of schoolhouses like Root Schools and Barlow School reveals a highly decentralized educational system typical of the era before district consolidation. The boundary between Crawford Co and Venango Co cuts across the southern portion of the sheet, where settlements like Dempseytown and Sunville anchor the local community. For those tracing Pennsylvania lineage, the map provides a precise record of neighborhood landmarks such as Black Ash Corners and Oregon Corners before modern infrastructure altered these rural corridors.