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1944 Map of Woodhull

Name: 1944 Topographic Map of Woodhull
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1944
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1944

About this map

The Canisteo River valley serves as the primary corridor for commerce and transport in this part of Steuben County, carrying the tracks of the Erie RR through settlements like Cameron Mills and Rathbone. The landscape is defined by a dense network of upland one-room schoolhouses, such as Eight Square Sch, Gothic Sch, and Northrup Street Sch, reflecting a highly localized rural education system before mid-century consolidation. These schools are distributed among family-named ridges and hills including Roosa Hill and Norway Ridge.

In the southern portion of the quadrangle, the community of Woodhull sits at a crossroads along Tuscarora Creek, surrounded by smaller hamlets like Borden and Hedgesville. The map illustrates the 1940s rural economy of the New York-Pennsylvania borderlands, where the terrain dictated isolated farming pockets and small water-side villages. Many of these locations, such as Risingville and South Cameron, provide specific points of interest for genealogists tracing families in the townships of Woodhull, Rathbone, and Thurston.