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1971 Map of Diggs

Name: 1971 Topographic Map of Diggs
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1983
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1983

About this map

Diggs and the surrounding borderlands of Richmond County define this landscape as it appeared in the early 1970s. The terrain is a complex network of wetlands and creek bottoms, where Marks Creek and Whites Creek drain toward the Pee Dee R. The map captures a rural social fabric organized around local congregations and crossroads, featuring St Stephens Ch, Pleasant Hill Ch, and Whites Creek Ch.

Industrial and transport corridors carve through the wooded ridges, most notably the Seaboard Coast Line railroad and a major Pipeline that bisects the quadrangle. Smaller settlements like Osborne and Fulton sit along these transit lines, while the high ground of Ballast Ridge and the Lookout Tower provide a sense of the elevation changes across this North Carolina and South Carolina transition zone. To the west, Everetts Lake and Wallace Pond highlight the importance of local water bodies in this humid, timbered environment.