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1960 Map of Union City

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Union City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1961
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1961

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Union City straddles the Indiana Ohio State Line in this 1960 survey, serving as a significant railroad junction where the Pennsylvania RR, New York Central RR, and Baltimore and Ohio RR converge. The urban center is densely developed with civic landmarks like the City Hall, Post Office, and a Hospital, while the surrounding landscape is defined by agricultural drainage systems and small rural clusters.

Genealogists will find numerous burial sites across the township lines, including Shockney Cem and McFarland Cem. The agrarian character of the region is punctuated by small settlements such as New Lisbon, Hill Grove, and South Salem. Watercourses like the Mississinewa River and the Little Mississinewa River snake through the terrain, supplemented by an extensive network of named ditches including Shelly Central Ditch and O'Conner Ditch, which reflect the early 20th-century engineering required to manage the local water table for farming.