2018 Map of Copeland

About this map

Mehaffey, Belmont, and Copeland anchor this survey of the Alabama-Mississippi borderlands, where the terrain is defined by the winding course of the Escatawpa River. The landscape is heavily marked by a high density of rural burial grounds, including Zion Rest Cem, Minerva Cem, and Lewis Chapel Cem, suggesting a long-established network of family and church-centered settlements across Washington County, Alabama, and Wayne County, Mississippi. A complex grid of local roads and logging tracks, such as Buckatunna Millry Rd and Copeland Buckatunna Rd, connects these isolated communities and follows the natural drainage of numerous tributaries like Little Red Cr and Savannah Br. The proximity of these small hamlets to the state line highlights the historical importance of cross-border local transit in this timber-rich region of the Gulf Coastal Plain.