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1968 Map of Ansley

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Ansley
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

The Seaboard Coast line defines the southwestern corner of this landscape, passing through the small community of Ansley and near the Ansley Sch. This rural stretch of the Alabama coastal plain is characterized by a dense network of watercourses, including Olustee Creek, McQuagge Mill Creek, and Little Patsaliga Creek, which drain the timbered and agricultural land along the border of Montgomery and Pike counties. The map captures a pattern of dispersed rural settlements, where life centered on local institutions such as the Jr High Sch at Shellhorn and the Harmony Sch further east.

Religious and community history is well-represented through numerous country churches and burial grounds, such as Mt Moriah Ch and its accompanying Mt Moriah Cem. In the center of the sheet, the Lookout Tower atop Becks Mtn provides a clear vantage point over the surrounding terrain. Small crossroads communities like Meeksville and Orion appear as they functioned in the late 1960s, before modern consolidation altered many of these local hubs.