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1961 Map of Anderson

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Anderson
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

Anderson serves as the focal point of this Grimes County landscape, situated near the headwaters of Holland Creek and Nebletts Creek. The 1961 field survey reveals a community organized around its civic and religious foundations, notably the Fairground and the prominent St Stanislaus Ch. Moving south across the open spaces of Grimes Prairie, the map documents a rural network of small schoolhouses and churches that anchored local life in the mid-twentieth century, including the Grimes Prairie Sch and Pleasant Grove Ch.

Logistics and industry of the era are marked by a Railroad Grade and a cross-county Pipeline, while the natural drainage follows numerous branches like Haynie Creek and Little Caney Creek toward the Buff Lake Bottoms in the southeast. This survey preserves the exact locations of family and community landmarks such as Mason Cem and the settlement of Apolonia before further modernization changed the rural character of the region.