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2024 Map of Blue Mountain

Name: 2024 Topographic Map of Blue Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2024
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2024

About this map

Blue Mountain serves as the focal point of this North Mississippi landscape, where the campus of Blue Mountain College and a network of local roads like W Main St and S Guyton Blvd meet the edge of the Holly Springs National Forest. The geography is defined by a dense system of watercourses, including the Tippah River and its various tributaries like North Tippah Creek and South Tippah Creek. These waterways, along with features such as Godwin Lake and Wood Duck Lake, suggest a land historically shaped by timber and agriculture.

Genealogists will find a significant distribution of family and community burial grounds, from the Duncan Family Cem and Rutherford Cem to the Marvin Cem near Ripley Airport. Smaller settlements such as Gravestown and Lowrey punctuate the map, while named elevations like Burge Hill, Banana Hill, and Bald Knob provide local landmarks among the forest and creek bottoms. The border between Benton and Tippah counties bisects the western portion, marking a divide in this rural Southern terrain.