1976 Map of Diggs

About this map

Diggs and its surrounding agricultural landscape are documented through this 1976 orthophotoquad, which uses aerial photography to reveal the precise settlement patterns of Richmond County. Unlike traditional topographic maps, this imagery provides a clear view of the timbered parcels and cleared fields that define the rural economy near the North Carolina and South Carolina border. Small communities like Ellerbe Grove and Osborne appear as clusters of structures along the narrow roadways, while Fulton sits among the shifting terrain of the piedmont. This photographic record captures the exact footprint of family farms and homesteads during the mid-1970s, offering genealogists a specific visual of the land as it was managed and inhabited before modern development or changes in land use altered these rural crossroads.