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2022 Map of Deason

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Deason
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Shelbyville serves as the southern anchor of this landscape, where the town's expanding northern reaches like Fairlane Estates meet the agricultural terrain of Bedford County. The topography is defined by the Tennessee Valley Divide and numerous named elevations including Ransom Hill and Horse Mountain. This area is particularly rich in genealogical data, preserving a dense network of family burial grounds and commemorative sites such as the Erwin Slave Cem, Houston-Whitworth Cem, and Mc Cuistion Cem.

Small settlements like Deason and Vannatta are connected by a web of rural routes including the Old Nashville Dirt Rd and Unionville Deason Rd. Hydrology is dominated by Hurricane Creek and its many tributaries, alongside prominent water sources such as Hictons Big Spring and Sulphur Spring. The northern boundary is marked by the transition into Rutherford County, while the central corridor is punctuated by the Bomar Field/Shelbyville Municipal Airport.