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1961 Map of Canton

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Canton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

Canton serves as the focal point of this Madison County landscape, where the Illinois Central railroad corridor drives the local geography. The town plan is densely detailed, featuring the County Fairground, a Drive-in Theater, and the Rogers High Sch campus with its associated Rogers High Sch Cem. Surrounding the seat of government, the rural countryside is dotted with small communities like Gluckstadt, Livingston, and Annandale, each connected by a network of local roads and the developing Natchez Trace Parkway.

The Western portion of the sheet is defined by the winding course of the Big Black River, which forms the boundary with Yazoo County. This river system is a complex of oxbows and sloughs, including Horseshoe Lake and Long Lake, interspersed with family-named landmarks such as Beatties Bluff and Pickett Creek. Numerous country churches and cemeteries, such as Mt Hope Ch and Stokes Cem, provide essential anchor points for genealogists tracing the family settlements that once flourished along these fertile bottomlands.