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2011 Map of Chesterfield

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Chesterfield
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

The town of Chesterfield serves as the focal point of this South Carolina landscape, where a dense network of country roads intersects with numerous waterways. The terrain is defined by the drainages of Thompson Creek and Indian Creek, which supported a historic milling economy evidenced by features like the Merriman Millpond, Robeson Millpond, and Hunts Mill. These water bodies and their associated dams illustrate how local geography was harnessed for industry and community life.

Genealogists and local historians can find significant landmarks across the quadrangle, including the Chesterfield City Cemetery and Oakland Cemetery near the town center, as well as the more rural Cross Branch Cemetery and Fannie Cemetery. Small settlements like Shiloh, centered around Shiloh Church, and Bethesda provide insights into the early 21st-century distribution of rural communities. The map also records numerous family-named branches and prongs, such as Twitty Prong and Rocky Prong, which offer clues to long-standing land ownership patterns in the region.