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1953 Map of Amandaville

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Amandaville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1991
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1991

About this map

Amandaville and the winding course of Crocus Creek anchor this mid-century survey of the Adair and Cumberland County borderlands. The landscape is defined by its ridge-and-hollow topography, where early settlements and family landmarks were established along high ground like Harvey Ridge and Chestnut Flat Ridge. The mapping reveals a rural infrastructure of one-room schoolhouses and country churches that served these isolated ridge communities, including Walnut Grove Sch near the northern boundary and Elliott Sch to the south.

Transportation patterns follow the natural contours of the land, with routes connecting small gathering points such as Inroad and Chance. Significant local history is preserved in the location of family burial grounds and congregations like Hadleys Cem and Spark Chapel, providing a detailed look at the social fabric before later 20th-century modernization. The southern edge of the sheet briefly touches the Cumberland River, the primary drainage for the network of creeks like Puncheon Camp Creek and Harrods Fork that dissect the terrain.