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1961 Map of York Center

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of York Center
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1991
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1991

About this map

The Greenville Treaty Line cuts a historic diagonal through this portion of Union County, reflecting the early surveying legacy of the Virginia Military District. Small rural communities like Byhalia and York Center anchor a landscape defined by its agricultural and drainage patterns, where narrow waterways such as Rush Creek and Bokes Creek meander toward the Scioto River watershed.

Local history is preserved in several family and community burial grounds, including the Burnside Cem and East York Cem, and at the gathering point of Grace Chapel. The presence of numerous Gravel Pits and Quarries near the creek beds illustrates the local extraction industries that supported regional infrastructure during the mid-20th century. This survey, based on 1959 aerial photography, documents the area's rural character before modern land consolidations.