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1942 Map of Deer Park

Name: 1942 Topographic Map of Deer Park
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

About this map

The Little Escatawpa River and Escatawpa River wind through this corner of the Alabama-Mississippi border, anchoring a landscape of timber-industry camps and rural crossroads. The Mississippi and Alabama RR and Mobile and Ohio RR provide the primary infrastructure connecting settlements like Deer Park and Renausville. Local life at the time of this 1942 survey is centered around small family-named landmarks and rural institutions, from Turners Store to the McCann Sch.

Remote outposts such as Stalworth Camp suggest the active logging or naval stores operations prevalent in the Piney Woods during the mid-20th century. Genealogists will find significant value in the distribution of country churches, including Shiloh Ch and Pilgrim Rest Ch, alongside cemeteries like Burbank Cem and Welcome Cem which mark the early 20th-century population centers of Washington and Mobile Counties.