Vegetation in Niles Township Area Map, 1830s
Title
Vegetation in Niles Township Area Map, 1830s
Creator
Description
Hand-drawn composite map based on the General Land Office maps of the 1830s microfilmed by the Bureau of Land Management in 1953; Albert Scharf's "Indian trails and villages of Chicago…" from 1804; and Philip C. Hanson's "The presettlement vegetation of the plain of the glacial lake Chicago in Cook County," 1981. Ohio Biological Survey Notes, No 15: 159-164. Labeled areas include: wet forest, oak-hickory forest, prairie, Morton Grove Station, Niles West High School, North Branch of the Chicago River, Fire Station, Little Fort Trail, Centre East, St. Peter's Catholic Church, Skokie Swift Dempster Station, and Old Orchard [Shopping Mall].
From Chapter 1, "The Niles Township Area: Natural Vegetation," in Skokie: A Community History Using Old Maps by David Buisseret (Chicago Neighborhood History Project, and the Skokie Historical Society and the Newberry Library, 1985).
Date
circa 1830
Publisher
Skokie Historical Society, Skokie, Illinois (original web version); Chicago Neighborhood History Project
Rights
No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Format
Medium
historical maps
Source
Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Provenance
Skokie Historical Society, Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Spatial Coverage
Niles Center, Illinois; Skokie, Illinois
Temporal Coverage
Is Part Of
David Buisseret, Skokie, a Community History Using Old Maps
Citation
Buisseret, David, “Vegetation in Niles Township Area Map, 1830s,” Skokie History Digital Collections, accessed April 28, 2024, https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/items/show/3122.