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1963 Map of Brewer

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Brewer
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

About this map

Brewer and the Sand Hill community anchor this rural landscape in Greene County, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. The area is defined by a dense network of watercourses, including the north-flowing Piney Woods Creek and the southern reaches of Gaines Creek and Boykin Creek. The map documents a scattered settlement pattern typical of the era, where small country churches like Sand Hill Creek Ch and Zion Rest Ch served as central community landmarks alongside their respective burial grounds.

Economic activity is represented by several labeled oil wells and a Gravel Pit, indicating the extraction industries that punctuated the timber-heavy landscape. The boundary between Perry and Greene counties runs vertically through the western portion of the quadrangle, passing near Frisco Cem. For genealogists, the map is particularly useful for identifying family-named landmarks such as Roberts and several well-established cemeteries, including Nazareth Ch Cem and Sand Hill Cem.