2012 Map of Cross Cut

About this map

Cross Plains serves as the northern anchor of this Central Texas landscape, where the street grid gives way to the extensive Cross Plains Oil Field. The area's economic history is written in its energy and agriculture, with the southern reaches defined by the Burkett Oil Field and the small settlement of Cross Cut. Numerous water management features, such as Soil Conservation Service Site 12 Reservoir and McDonough Lake, illustrate the region's reliance on managed water systems to support cattle and crops in the dry terrain. Genealogists will find the Dressy Cem and Cross Cut Cem located near established creek drainages like Turkey Cr and Little Pecan Bayou. The map captures a moment of modern rural continuity, showing a network of county roads connecting isolated homesteads and livestock operations across the drainage basins of Pecan Bayou and E Holloway Cr.