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1952 Map of Block

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Block
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

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The Southern railroad line follows the deep valley of Straight Fork in this 1952 survey of the Scott and Campbell County border. This area is characterized by heavy industrial and residential clusters centered around the rail line and the winding path of Tennessee 116, which connects small settlements like Smoky Junction and Turley. The landscape is dominated by massive ridges such as Adkins Mountain and Brushy Mountain, where numerous coal mines and abandoned workings are noted alongside several mountain gaps including Wolf Gap and Flint Gap.

Local life is visible in the distribution of civic landmarks, from the Antioch Church near Montgomery to the Upper Round Rock School further south. Genealogists may find particular value in the locations of the Nicks Creek Cemetery and Round Rock Cemetery, which sit near the junctions of Nicks Creek and Round Rock Creek. A lone lookout tower stands atop a ridge near Grave Gap, overlooking a terrain of hollows and prongs that defined the coal and timber economy of mid-century East Tennessee.