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1961 Map of Winchester

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Winchester
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

Winchester serves as the primary hub of this landscape at the intersection of the Norfolk and Western railway and several regional roads. The surrounding countryside is defined by the winding course of the West Fork Ohio Brush Creek and its many tributaries, including Turkey Run and Elk Run. This area preserves several ancient and historical landmarks, notably an Indian Mound near Winchester Lake and the Roadside Park.

For family historians, the map is remarkably dense with burial grounds, ranging from larger sites like Memorial Park Cemetery to smaller family or community plots such as Fincastle Cem, Rickey Cem, and Independence Cem. Small crossroads communities like Macon and Eagle provide additional points of reference for tracing rural settlement patterns in the early 1960s, while the placement of Mt Olivet Ch anchors the local social geography.