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1958 Map of Calvert City

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Calvert City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

Calvert City and Gilbertsville anchor this mid-century survey, revealing a landscape defined by industrial expansion and the massive engineering of the Tennessee River. The 1968 revisions, highlighted in purple, document significant change along the riverfront, including new filtration plants, substations, and tailings ponds that contrast with the rural character of the northern hills. The completion of the Kentucky Dam has transformed the river into Kentucky Lake, establishing the Kentucky Dam Village State Park and the Kentucky Dam Tree Nursery as prominent regional landmarks.

Local history and genealogy are well-preserved through numerous family-named landmarks and rural burial grounds such as Duke Cem, Wells Cem, and Rumage Cem. The infrastructure of an earlier era persists in labels like W Gilbertsville Sta on the Illinois Central railroad and Haddox Ferry. To the north, the terrain rises toward the Divide, where small settlements like Guess and Newbern sit among narrow valleys drained by Cypress Creek and Sugar Creek.