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2010 Map of Cana

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Cana
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

Cana sits at the heart of this landscape along the Virginia-North Carolina border, surrounded by a dense network of family cemeteries and rural homesteads. The terrain is defined by the descent from the Blue Ridge, with prominent features like Sugarloaf and Wheeler Knob overlooking a complex drainage system. Waterways such as Pauls Creek, Stewarts Creek, and Benson Creek carve through the foothills, once serving as the primary markers for property and community boundaries.

Genealogists will find an exceptional density of burial sites including Flower Gap Cemetery, Sandy Ridge Cemetery, and the Tolbert-Westmoreland Cemetery. The map captures the area just before the southern settlement of Toast transitions into the larger hub of Mount Airy, preserving the specific layout of family-named roads like Arless McCraw Ln and Puckett Farm Trl that characterize this Piedmont borderland.