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1973 Map of Coats

Name: 1973 Topographic Map of Coats
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

Campbell College serves as a primary hub of activity in this pocket of North Carolina, positioned just south of the community of Buies Creek. The landscape is a network of small watercourses, including Thorntons Creek and East Buies Creek, that eventually feed into the Black River. This 1970s survey documents a region defined by agricultural life and institutional growth, where the Durham and Southern railroad cuts a diagonal line through the terrain, connecting the larger settlement at Coats with Angier and Barclaysville to the northwest.

Genealogists and local researchers will find an abundance of landmarks, from the Lakeside Memorial Gardens to numerous rural sanctuaries like Bethel Ch, Pleasant Plains Ch, and Prospect Ch. The presence of a Landing Strip and multiple Radio Towers indicates the modernization of the rural landscape during the early 1970s, even as traditional landmarks like Youngs Pond and Popes Lake remain central features of the local geography.