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1943 Map of Vevay North

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Vevay North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

Vevay anchors the southern edge of this Switzerland County landscape along the Ohio River, where the town sits across from the Kentucky border. Surveyed by G. F. Westinghouse just before the war, the terrain is defined by a dense network of ridges and runs that dictated the settlement patterns of rural Indiana. Roads follow the high ground of Popcorn Ridge and Parks Ridge, connecting small community centers such as Mt Sterling and Allensville.

Local history is preserved through a detailed record of 1940s rural infrastructure, including many one-room schoolhouses like Jacksonville Sch and Drewry Sch. Family lineages are tied to the land at Stow Cem and the Odd Fellows Cem. The drainage patterns of Indian Creek and Plum Creek reveal the complex topography that isolated these upland communities before modern highway development changed the local geography.