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2022 Map of Albemarle

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Albemarle
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

The city of Albemarle serves as the focal point of this modern survey, anchored by the Stanly County Courthouse in the central downtown district. The urban layout transitions from dense street grids to the sprawling campus of Stanly Community College on the western edge. A complex system of small waterways, including Little Long Cr and Melchor Br, dissects the landscape, illustrating how the town has integrated with the natural drainage basins of the Piedmont.

Genealogists will find a high concentration of burial sites surrounding the city, ranging from the large Stanly Gardens Cem and Fairview Memorial Park to smaller, outlying grounds like Bethesda Cem and Old Freedom Cem. Beyond the city limits, the landscape shifts toward the rural community of Porter and the wooded terrain near Mountain Cr, showing the persistent rural character that remains just outside the expanding municipal borders of the county seat.