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1978 Map of Butler

Name: 1978 Topographic Map of Butler
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

Butler serves as the focal point of this Choctaw County survey, showing the town's layout during the late 1970s. The settlement's infrastructure includes the Patrician Academy and the Butler-Choctaw Co Airport to the northeast, while the local social fabric is evidenced by numerous rural landmarks like the Choctaw Country Club. To the east lies Mount Sterling, a community established amidst a landscape defined by the winding paths of Wahalak Creek and Mellen Creek.

The southern portion of the map is particularly rich for family history research, dotted with small country churches and burial grounds. Traces of rural life are preserved in labels for Morgan Chapel, Wesley Ch, and the Marvin Cem. The terrain transitions from the developed town center to the dense creek bottoms of Big Tallawampa Creek and Tishlarka Creek, illustrating the intersection of Alabama's timber-rich landscape and its scattered mid-century rural congregations.