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1941 Map of Chattanooga

Name: 1941 Topographic Map of Chattanooga
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1941
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1941

About this map

Moccasin Bend anchors this 1941 Tennessee Valley Authority survey, showing the Tennessee River winding between the steep slopes of Lookout Mountain and Signal Mountain. The city is depicted as a thriving industrial and transit hub, where the NC & ST L RR and Southern RR converge at Union Station and Terminal Station. On the heights of Lookout Mountain, the Incline Railway climbs toward Ruby Falls and Sunset Rock, while the urban core features the University of Chattanooga, Erlanger Hospital, and the sprawling Citico Yards.

The map reveals the early 1940s landscape just before wartime expansion, detailing many neighborhood schools and family burial grounds such as Sivley Cem and Beason Cem. From the Pine Breeze Sanatorium on Stringers Ridge to the Chattanooga National Military Park, the sheet captures a period when river navigation on the Hales Bar Reservoir and local industry like the Lupton City mills drove the regional economy.