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1979 Map of Bangor

Name: 1979 Topographic Map of Bangor
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1993
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1993

About this map

The Licking River valley, as it appeared following the creation of Cave Run Lake, dominates this topographic study of the Daniel Boone National Forest boundary. The map captures a landscape in transition, where rising waters at Elevation 730 defined new shorelines around former river bottoms. Small settlements like Bangor and Paragon remain perched near the intricate drainage networks of the North Fork Licking River and Yocum Cr.

The rugged terrain of eastern Kentucky is evidenced by prominent landforms such as Lockegee Rock and Wilson Hill. Historically, the area supported varied small-scale extractive industries, indicated by scattered Quarry sites and Claypits near Lick Fork. Numerous family-named hollows and branches, including Don McKinsey Branch and Peter Everett Br, provide essential data for genealogists tracing the early residents of this borderland between Rowan, Bath, Menifee, and Morgan Counties.