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1949 Map of Brushart

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Brushart
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Beauty Ridge and Zion Ridge dominate the landscape of this late 1940s survey of the Lewis and Greenup County border. The map reveals a deeply etched topography of hollows and branches, where life was organized around small upland settlements like Whiteoak, York, and Brushart. This era shows a network of one-room schoolhouses and family burial grounds that served isolated hollow-dwelling communities, including the Kenton-Furnace Sch, Logan Sch, and Hampshire Sch.

The industrial and social history of the region is written into labels such as Powder Mill Hollow and Stone Coal Hollow, indicating local resource extraction and processing. Numerous family-named landmarks, such as Veach Cem and Rhoden Cem, provide valuable geographic anchors for genealogical research. The presence of the State Road and State Route highlights the primary transport corridors connecting these eastern Kentucky ridges before more modern infrastructure altered the rural character.