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1976 Map of Boaz

Name: 1976 Topographic Map of Boaz
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

Sand Mountain dominates the landscape of this 1970s survey, where the expanding corporate boundaries of Boaz and Albertville begin to converge along the Seaboard Coast Line corridor. The map captures a period of transition as traditional rural life meets modern infrastructure, evidenced by the presence of the Albertville Municipal Airfield and a drive-in theater near the increasingly developed city centers.

Genealogists and local historians can trace family roots through numerous country churches and burial grounds like Old Mt Vernon Cem and Beulah Cem. South of the urban centers, the terrain drops into Bristow Cove and Little Red Mountain, where smaller settlements like Mountainboro and Murphree Crossroads maintain a more dispersed character. The Tennessee Valley Divide snakes through the eastern portion of the sheet, marking the hydraulic split between the region's prominent ridge-and-valley systems.