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1936 Map of Courtland

Name: 1936 Topographic Map of Courtland
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1936
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1936

About this map

Courtland serves as the focal point of this 1930s landscape, positioned where the Southern railroad intersects Big Nance Creek. The map documents a critical era of regional transformation as the Tennessee Valley Authority established the Wheeler Reservoir, indicated by the Wheeler Reservation Boundary along the northern edge. This survey, compiled from aerial photographs, shows a rural landscape densely populated with local landmarks that define early 20th-century Alabama life, including several schools like Mt Zion Sch and Harmony Sch.

The prominence of named water bodies such as Sherrod Lake, Ashford Pond, and Prairie Lake reveals a terrain defined by varied drainage patterns and seasonal catchments. This period shows the coexistence of traditional agricultural settlement patterns near Rocky Hill with modern infrastructure, such as the Tenn Valley Authority Transmission Line and an isolated Oil Well, illustrating the industrial shifts occurring in Lawrence County during the mid-1930s.