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1973 Map of Cary

Name: 1973 Topographic Map of Cary
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1992
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1992

About this map

The town of Cary sits at a transitional moment in this survey, showing the expansion of the Research Triangle as residential subdivisions begin to press into the surrounding rural landscape. Historically significant settlements like Morrisville and Carpenter are well-defined along the Southern and CSX rail lines, which provided the backbone for the local economy before the rise of the Research Triangle Park and the Raleigh-Durham Airport.

A network of country churches and small family burying grounds, such as Hill Crest Cem and Shiloh Ch, are interspersed among the many creeks that define the topography, including Crabtree Creek and White Oak Creek. The western edge of William B Umstead State Park provides a preserved wooded contrast to the encroaching purple-tinted urban extensions of the early 1980s, which indicate new growth around Northwood Sch and Briarcliff Sch.