1976 Map of Fayetteville

About this map

Fayetteville is seen here at a period of significant suburban development during the mid-1970s. This orthophotograph, rectified from aerial imagery taken in early 1976, provides a rare visual of the land use patterns and densifying residential grids in Cumberland County. The map details the expansion of Bonnie Doone to the northwest and the established neighborhoods of Lakedale to the south. Unlike traditional line-drawn topographic maps, this imagery-based survey shows the actual density of forest cover remaining between the burgeoning housing tracts and commercial corridors, offering a literal view of the North Carolina landscape as it existed before decades of further southern urban sprawl changed the outskirts of the city.