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2010 Map of Bazette

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Bazette
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

Bazette and Montfort anchor this corner of Navarro County, illustrating a landscape defined by small-scale ranching and intensive water management. The area is crisscrossed by a dense network of country roads such as FM 638 and Ne 2035, linking scattered homesteads and private landing strips like Smith Airport and Hancock Airport. Genealogists will find the Phillips Cemetery preserved amongst the farmsteads, while the natural drainage of Rush Creek and Westbrook Creek feeds towards the Trinity River in the northeast corner.

Water conservation is the dominant modern engineering feature here, evidenced by a series of Soil Conservation Service projects. Numerous man-made basins, including Soil Conservation Service Site 104 and Site 9 Reservoirs, alongside their associated dams, have reshaped the local hydrology. This infrastructure, built to manage runoff into tributaries like Little Rush Creek and Hackberry Creek, has transformed the traditional East Texas prairie into a more managed agricultural environment.