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2011 Map of Broxton North

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Broxton North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

Broxton sits at the southern edge of this Coffee County landscape, serving as a focal point for a region defined by its intricate network of slow-moving waters and scattered rural settlements. The topography is shaped by the winding courses of Halls Creek, Roses Creek, and Ninemile Creek, which feed into numerous small reservoirs and ponds including J J Dockery Pond and Reynolds Lake. These water bodies are frequently associated with family names, such as James Smith Lake and Sam Jones Lake, reflecting a long history of local land ownership and private water management.

Small communities and historic locales like Pridgen, Sapps Still, and Rose Hill are linked by a grid of county roads and lanes. For genealogists and local historians, the area is rich with burial sites, from the larger Broxton City Cemetery to smaller family and church-affiliated grounds such as the Candacy Cato Cemetery, De Berry Cemetery, and Benjamin Chapel Cemetery. The distribution of these sites across the landscape suggests a community structure deeply rooted in the rural geography of South Georgia.