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2016 Map of Autryville

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Autryville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

The coastal plain landscape of eastern North Carolina is defined here by an intricate network of Carolina bays and expansive wetlands along the Sampson and Cumberland County line. This 2016 survey documents the agricultural and forested terrain surrounding the town of Stedman and the community of Autryville, where the land is punctuated by distinctive elliptical depressions such as White Pond Bay, Sewell Bay, and Smiths Mill Bay. These features, alongside The Pocosin and Vineyard Swamp, create a complex hydrologic pattern that has long influenced local settlement and land use.

Rural life is traced through a web of family-named roads like Sidney Bullard Rd and Troy Fisher Rd, which connect the scattered farms to historical landmarks like Simmons Mill Pond. The terrain transitions from these productive basins into denser wetland systems such as Gallberry Swamp and Little Alligator Swamp, illustrating the persistent character of the Sandhills and Coastal Plain interface in the modern era.