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2019 Map of Dalton

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Dalton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

The Tradewater River winds through this rural landscape at the intersection of Caldwell, Hopkins, and Webster Counties. This river-valley terrain is defined by a series of historic river crossings, including Baldwin Ford, Utley Ford, and Smith Ford, alongside early infrastructure like Towery Bridge. The map serves as a vital resource for genealogists, documenting a high density of family and community burial grounds such as Holloman Cem, Bell Cem, and the Pleasant Valley Cem.

Small communities like Dalton and Kirkwood Springs anchor the area's social history, while landmarks such as Lowery Gun Spring and Willimson Spring reveal the importance of natural water sources to the local geography. Distinctive landforms like Morse Bluff and Dunbar Bluff rise above the wetlands and creek bottoms of Donaldson Creek and Clear Creek, illustrating the natural boundaries that shaped late 20th and early 21st-century settlement patterns in western Kentucky.