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1951 Map of Valley Station

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Valley Station
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1951
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1951

About this map

Valley Station and the neighboring community of Johnsontown serve as the primary northern hubs on this 1951 record of the area south of Louisville. The landscape is defined by the transition from the relatively flat terrain along the Illinois Central Railroad and Louisville and Nashville Railroad to the complex ridges of the Knobs. This elevation change is marked by distinctive family-named features like Moremens Hill, Samuel Hill, and Mitchell Hill.

Evidence of the region's rural social fabric is found in several historic meeting places, including Bethany Ch, the Gospel Campground, and scattered educational sites such as Valley Sch and Mt Elmira Sch. Small family cemeteries like Reidinger Cem and Brown Cem are dotted among the hollows of Dillon Hollow and Rearden Hollow, offering specific points of interest for genealogists tracing families in the borderlands between Jefferson and Bullitt counties.