{"product_id":"map-of-woodstock-illinois-by-usgs-1992-mchenry-crystal-lake-lake-killarney","title":"Map of Woodstock, Illinois by USGS, 1992 – McHenry, Crystal Lake \u0026 Lake Killarney","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1992 by the U.S. Geological Survey, “Woodstock” presents a precise 1:24,000 topographical portrait of Woodstock, Illinois, and the surrounding communities of McHenry County. The map captures the city at a moment when the rural and suburban character of northern Illinois was undergoing visible transition, with long-established roads, rail lines, farms, neighborhoods, and civic spaces set into careful cartographic order. Woodstock itself appears as the central focus: a historically important crossroads community known for its courthouse square, rail connection, and enduring small-city identity. Around it, the map records the connective tissue of the region—U.S. Route 14, local roads, waterways, lakes, and settlement patterns—offering a richly detailed snapshot of place at the close of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Geological Survey’s classic topographic style gives the map both practical clarity and quiet elegance. Contour lines articulate the gentle rises, shallow valleys, and subtle undulations of the northeastern Illinois landscape, while standardized symbols distinguish roads, railroads, buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, streams, ponds, parks, and other landmarks. This disciplined visual language reflects more than a century of federal mapmaking expertise, designed to serve surveyors, planners, educators, hikers, engineers, and local historians alike. In the Woodstock quadrangle, that precision transforms familiar countryside into a layered geographic document, revealing how settlement, transportation, drainage, and terrain interrelate across a landscape often perceived as deceptively flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond Woodstock, the map situates a constellation of northern Illinois communities within the broader regional pattern. McHenry, Crystal Lake, Hartland, Algonquin, Lake in the Hills, Bull Valley, Nunda, and Cary mark the expanding suburban and rural fringe northwest of Chicago. Each name evokes a different aspect of the area’s history: agricultural settlement, rail-era growth, lakefront recreation, commuter development, and the preservation of open space. The map’s roads and rail lines are especially revealing, showing the arteries that shaped daily movement and economic connection. U.S. Route 14 and the rail corridors underscore Woodstock’s long-standing role as a linked but distinctive community within the metropolitan orbit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWater and open land lend the map much of its character. Lakes and ponds, including Lake Killarney and smaller unnamed waters, punctuate the terrain, while streams and drainageways trace the natural courses that influenced settlement and land use. Parks, recreational areas, and designated wildlife spaces suggest a landscape balanced between development and conservation. The surrounding countryside retains signs of its agricultural inheritance, even as the mapped road network and suburban edges point toward the growth that would intensify after 1992. In this sense, the map is not merely a record of topography, but a visual witness to a region poised between rural memory and metropolitan expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a historical document, “Woodstock” is especially compelling for the way it captures the ordinary details that later become meaningful evidence of change. Roads may have widened, subdivisions expanded, commercial corridors developed, and open fields altered since its publication, yet the map preserves the earlier arrangement of town, countryside, infrastructure, and landform. Its measured contours and symbols invite close reading: the grade of a road, the placement of a rail line, the edge of a pond, the boundary of a park, the pattern of a neighborhood. For collectors of American topographic mapping, it offers a refined and exacting view of Woodstock and its environs at a pivotal late-twentieth-century moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoodstock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMcHenry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrystal Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHartland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlgonquin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLake in the Hills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBull Valley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNunda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLakes and ponds, including Lake Killarney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoads and highways, including U.S. Route 14\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRail lines serving the area\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParks and recreational areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesignated wildlife areas and potential historic sites\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContours and elevation features representing local topography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by the U.S. Geological Survey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical 1:24,000 topographical map dated and published in 1992\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDepicts Woodstock, Illinois and surrounding areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe U.S. Geological Survey is known for producing reliable topographic maps for educational and practical use\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses a classic topographic presentation style with contour lines, elevation shading, and distinct symbols for roads and landmarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows elevations, valleys, and terrain undulations through detailed contouring and shading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaptures the area before later urban expansion, infrastructure development, and land-use changes since 1992\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/fr\/pages\/map-personalisation\"\u003eSee personalised map examples\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? 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