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1965 Map of Xenia

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Xenia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1988
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1988

About this map

Xenia serves as a significant regional hub at the convergence of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The map reveals an area defined by academic and social institutions, most notably the neighboring campuses of Wilberforce University and Central State College to the northeast. Near the city center, the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home and the Childrens Home stand as prominent landmarks of 20th-century social infrastructure.

The landscape is drained by the Little Miami River and Massies Creek, with the latter featuring a Covered Bridge north of Wilberforce. Several smaller settlements like Oldtown, Trebein, and New Jasper provide a look at the outlying rural communities before late-century suburban expansion. The 1980s updates, shown in purple, track the residential growth extending south toward Shawnee Creek and west along Dayton Xenia Road.