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2017 Map of Five Forks

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Five Forks
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

The town of Norris and the rural junction of Five Forks anchor this landscape along the border of Pickens and Anderson counties. The area is defined by a dense network of creek systems including Eighteenmile Creek, Cuffie Creek, and Three and Twenty Creek, which feed into local reservoirs like Gillespie Lake and the Three and Twenty Creek Watershed Five Lake.

Settlement patterns are deeply rooted in local congregations and family burying grounds, with numerous landmarks such as Sharon Church, Corinth Baptist Cemetery Number Two, and Willis Chapel Cemetery serving as vital touchpoints for genealogists. The map illustrates a transition from the structured street plan of Norris in the northwest to the winding rural roads like Simms Mill Road and Slab Bridge Road that characterize the agricultural hinterlands to the south and east.