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1983 Map of Benwood

Name: 1983 Topographic Map of Benwood
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1984
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1984

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The Old Indian Treaty Boundary cuts diagonally through this north-central Mississippi landscape, marking a historical line of demarcation across the hills of Yalobusha and Calhoun counties. The Skuna River and the Skuna River Canal dominate the central lowlands, where the Mississippi and Skuna Valley railroad follows the river's path through the small settlements of Spearman and Benwood.

Remote church-and-cemetery clusters such as Dividing Ridge Ch and Clear Springs Cem are scattered across the rising terrain of the Calhoun County State Wildlife Management Area. This 1983 survey captures the area as a network of rural creek valleys, including Spearman Creek, York Creek, and Glady Creek, where land use was defined by the intersection of timber management, historical treaty lines, and the slow-moving Skuna River drainage system.