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1985 Map of Wheelock

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Wheelock
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

The St John River forms a dynamic international boundary in this northern Maine landscape, separating the rugged timberlands of St John Plantation and Wallagrass Plantation from Canada. The river's reach is dotted with numerous islands, including Savage Island, Crock Island, and Kennedy Island, while the interior terrain is defined by the prominent height of Bossy Mountain.

Settlement patterns follow the water and the narrow valley floor, visible in family-named locales like Violette Settlement and Belanger Settlement. Remote water bodies such as Wheelock Lake, St Almond Pond, and Black Pond sit tucked between the ridges, connected by a network of drainage brooks like Spaulding Brook and Sinclair Brook. This area reflects the mid-1980s transition of a traditional logging and frontier farming region, where small hamlets like Wheelock and Crockett maintained a quiet presence along the border.