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2017 Map of Bowdon West

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Bowdon West
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

State Line Rd marks the transition between Alabama's Cleburne County and Georgia's Carroll County on this 2017 survey. The western edge of Bowdon serves as the primary municipal center, where history is preserved across the Bowdon City Cemetery, First Methodist Cemetery, and Bowdon Baptist Cemetery. This rural landscape is heavily defined by its water management and agricultural heritage, featuring a series of numbered reservoirs including Lost Creek Lake Number 1 and Lost Creek Lake Number 3.

Smaller communities like Macedonia anchor the northwestern portion of the map, centered around the Macedonia Cemetery. The distribution of family and community burial grounds, such as Garretts Chapel Cemetery and Poplar Springs Cemetery, reflects a long-standing pattern of decentralized rural settlement. The terrain is crisscrossed by a network of county roads that follow the ridges and valleys carved by Indian Creek and Lost Creek.