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1972 Map of Zanesville

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Zanesville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

Zanesville and Roanoke anchor this 1972 survey, capturing a rural landscape defined by clear jurisdictional lines and drainage networks. The Old Indian Treaty Boundary cuts diagonally across the northwest corner, a significant historical surveyor's mark that still influenced land division decades later. This region, where Jackson, Lafayette, and Union townships meet, is threaded by the Norfolk and Western railroad and the slow-moving Little River.

Local civic life is visible through small rural centers like the Lafayette Central Sch and several country sanctuaries, including Monson Chapel and Beech Grove Ch. The presence of the Radio Towers (WOWO) near the boundary reflects the integration of modern communication into the agricultural heartland. Researchers will find numerous water management features such as Witzgall Ditch and Mc Culloch Ditch, illustrating the 20th-century effort to reclaim and maintain productive Indiana farmland.