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1899 Map of Westfield

Name: 1899 Topographic Map of Westfield
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1899
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1899

About this map

The Lake Erie shoreline of Chautauqua County defines this 1898 survey, where the commerce of the Great Lakes meets a dense network of late-Victorian rail infrastructure. The village of Westfield serves as the central hub, situated near the mouth of Chautauqua Creek and the lakeside landing at Barcelona. This area was a critical transit corridor, evidenced by the parallel tracks of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern R. R. and the New York Chicago and St. Louis R. R. as they hugged the coast toward the Pennsylvania boundary.

Inland, the topography rises sharply toward the village of Mayville near the Inlet, revealing a landscape of agricultural settlements like Ripley, Forsyth, and Volusia. A distinctive geological feature known as The Gulf cuts through the terrain south of the main rail lines. For genealogists and local historians, the map preserves the exact placement of rural landmarks such as Prospect Sta. and the smaller crossroads of Lombard before twentieth-century development altered the local road and rail patterns.