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1915 Map of Vincennes

Name: 1915 Topographic Map of Vincennes
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1934
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1934

About this map

Vincennes and Lawrenceville anchor this 1910s survey of the Wabash River valley, a landscape shaped by the shifting waters of the Wabash River and its major tributaries, the Embarrass River and White River. The terrain is characterized by ancient river remnants such as Beaver Pond, Otter Pond, and Rapid Pond, alongside the unique sandy elevations of the Sand Ridge and the broad Vincennes Common.

Railroad connectivity is dense across the river valley, with the Baltimore and Ohio RR and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois RR facilitating regional trade. Local rural life is evidenced by the high concentration of numbered and named school districts, including the Plank Road School, Holliday School, and the Sand Barrens School. These features, along with settlements like St Francisville and Allendale, reveal a robust agrarian economy just before modern highways would alter the traditional paths of the Plank Road School Highway and the Henderson Road.