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1917 Map of Uniontown

Name: 1917 Topographic Map of Uniontown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1929
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1929

About this map

The Ohio River dominates this landscape where Kentucky and Indiana meet, carved by a network of complex oxbows and sloughs including Horse Lake, Fish Lake, and Pirogue Lake. The river's influence is evident in the placement of riverfront settlements like Uniontown and Mount Vernon, which served as critical transport nodes before the shift away from waterway-dependent commerce. The map reveals an exceptionally dense system of early 20th-century education, recording dozens of local institutions such as Brewer Hill School, Mt Vernon Ferry School, and Allens Chapel School.

Transit infrastructure of the era is remarkably detailed, showing the Louisville and Nashville Electric Railroad and the Illinois Central RR cutting through the river valleys. Inland, smaller communities like Smith Mills, Robinsonville, and Hitesville appear as clusters of activity connected by the Evansville Road. This document provides a look at the wetland geography of the Mississippi Bend and Slim Island before modern drainage and channelization altered the Tri-State floodplain.