2010 Map of Cairo

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The North Fork Hughes River meanders through this Ritchie County landscape, anchoring the settlement of Cairo and its Cairo Post Office. This 2010 topographic record highlights a region defined by narrow valleys and named ridges such as Oil Ridge and Pew Hill. The distribution of family-named burial grounds, including the Rexroad Cemetery, Elfritz Cemetery, and Mason Cemetery, offers a clear spatial genealogy of the area's rural communities. An interesting industrial footprint remains visible in the form of Tunnel Number 19 and the site labeled Number One West of Cornwallis Dam near the river's northern bend. Smaller hamlets like Riverside, Rutherford, and Nutter Farm are connected by a network of winding county roads like Cairo Cisco Rd and Old US Hwy 50, tracing the natural drainage of creeks such as Devilhole Creek and Goose Creek.