1957 Map of Coalgate SE

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Atoka Reservoir dominates the landscape of this Oklahoma survey, illustrating the significant hydraulic engineering and land management occurring along the North Boggy Creek corridor in the late 1950s. The reservoir's inundation area, shown with detailed revisions from the 1970s, sits just west of Limestone Ridge. This region in the Coal and Atoka County borderlands reveals a mix of correctional agriculture and conservation, notably the State Honor Farm and the Atoka State Game Refuge which borders Sub-Penitentiary Lake. Evidence of earlier rural life persists in the placement of the Cairo Cem and Bethany Ch. The transportation infrastructure is anchored by the Missouri Kansas Texas line, which skirts the eastern edge of the reservoir basin near the small settlement of Flora.