1985 Map of China

Smaller residential clusters like Westbury and Meeker sit along the rail and road corridors, while the south is marked by the presence of New Bethel and the drainages of Din Bayou and Green Pond Gully. The map illustrates the transition from the wooded bottomlands of the bayou to the gridded agricultural fields and rising infrastructure of the Texas Gulf Coast. Local researchers can trace the development of Pine Island and the various creeks like Cotton Creek that feed into the larger regional watershed.