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1951 Map of Bates City

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Bates City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1951
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1951

About this map

The Gulf Mobile and Ohio railroad corridor anchors the southern portion of this mid-century landscape, linking the growing community of Bates City with nearby Oak Grove at the Jackson and Lafayette county line. The rural character of the area is defined by a dense network of country schools and family-linked cemeteries, reflecting a deeply established farming community. Educational landmarks like Foster College Sch and Ish Sch are distributed across the terrain, serving the population located between the winding Sni-A-Bar Creek and its various tributaries.

Water plays a central role in the topography, with Little Horseshoe Creek and Tucker Branch carving through the countryside. These natural features, combined with the presence of multiple burial grounds such as Anderson Cem and Campbell Cem, provide essential data points for genealogists and local historians tracing land ownership and settlement patterns before modern suburban development altered these historic boundaries.