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1965 Map of Cistern

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Cistern
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

Cistern serves as a central hub in this rural landscape of the mid-1960s, surrounded by family-named burial grounds that speak to generations of settlement. Small communities like Colony and Elm Grove anchor the southern reaches of the map, while the terrain is deeply etched by watercourses such as Peach Creek and Buckners Creek. The land use transition here is evident, as traditional agriculture and scattered homesteads share the landscape with industrial activities, including numerous Oil Wells and a Drill Hole.

Resource extraction is a prominent theme throughout the quadrangle, notably within the Southwest Muldoon Oil Field. To the east, the presence of a Strip Mine, a Claypit, and a Quarry indicates the variety of geological materials being harvested from the Texas soil. These features, combined with the Indefinite Boundary between Bastrop and Fayette counties, provide a detailed look at the local geography before modern development intensified.