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1961 Map of Chatfield

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Chatfield
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

About this map

The Corsicana Oil Field dominates the landscape of northeast Navarro County in the early 1960s, evidenced by a dense network of Oil Wells and a major Pipeline cutting through the terrain. This petroleum infrastructure shares the land with a complex water management system featuring the Rice Drainage Ditch and numerous numeric reservoirs like Reservoir No 128, reflecting the agricultural demands of the Chambers Creek bottomlands.

Settlement patterns center on the historic community of Chatfield, where the Chatfield Cem and the Chatfield-Tupelo Community Center serve as local anchors. Further south, the village of Roane sits along the Southern Pacific railroad line, while several rural churches including Tupelo Ch and St James Ch mark the crossroads of this working landscape. The map captures the transition where natural waterways like Waxahachie Creek have been modified into the Waxahachie Slough and Old Channel to support the region's intensive land use.