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1959 Map of Westdale

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Westdale
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1961
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1961

About this map

Westdale and Florence serve as the primary nodes of activity in this rural pocket of Oneida County, where the landscape is defined by the sweeping State Reforestation Area. The terrain is deeply carved by the Mad River and the West Branch Fish Creek, which converge near the southern boundary. This 1959 study highlights a shift in land use, showing an extensive network of roads like Meirs Road and Metot Road that connect isolated farmsteads and highland points like Maple Hill.

Local history is preserved in the small burial grounds of Johnson Cem and Graves Cem, while the industrial past is marked by the presence of an Old Railroad Grade running through the Westdale area. The map illustrates a region of recovered forest and remote water bodies like Gifford Lake, positioned at the intersection of Oswego and Oneida counties, documenting the transition from nineteenth-century clearing back to state-managed timberlands.