1962 Map of Ennis East

About this map

The Southern Pacific railroad corridor anchors this survey of eastern Ellis County, running through the growing hub of Ennis and southeast toward Rice. The landscape is a mix of agricultural plots and small communities like Telico, Creechville, and Alma. This map reveals a significant density of social and educational infrastructure that defined rural Texas life in the mid-century, including the Central High Sch and the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Home. A network of watercourses, such as Village Creek, Cottonwood Creek, and Cummins Creek, snakes through the territory, occasionally intercepted by industrial features like a Gravel Pit or the infrastructure of the local Sewage Disposal system. The presence of numerous rural religious sites, such as St Johns Ch and Cottonwood Ch, alongside family-named landmarks like the Redwine Cem, makes this an essential document for tracing genealogy and local settlement patterns.