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2010 Map of Dyer

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Dyer
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

The town of Dyer serves as the primary hub in this West Tennessee landscape, anchored by the Dyer Post Office and bisected by a network of rural routes. The terrain is defined by its drainage patterns, with the Rutherford Fork Obion River winding through the northern reaches while the North Fork Forked Deer River skirts the southern boundary. These waterways, along with smaller tributaries like Owen Branch and Sand Creek, have long dictated the placement of homesteads and agricultural plots throughout Gibson County.

For family historians, the area is rich with small, localized burial grounds that indicate early settlement patterns. Locations such as Mount Sinai Cemetery, Bobbitt Cemetery, and Griers Chapel Cemetery are spread across the countryside, often found near historical road junctions like Old Dyer-Trenton Rd and Iron Mountain Rd. The dense concentration of these sites, including the remote Bucksnort Cemetery, provides a detailed record of the communities that formed along the ridges and creek bottoms before modern development.