1976 Map of Boaz

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.