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1952 Map of Fork Mountain

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Fork Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

Morgan State Forest covers a significant portion of this landscape, where the borders of Scott, Morgan, Anderson, and Campbell counties meet. The area is defined by the heavy extraction of coal and the infrastructure that once supported it, including a dismantled railroad following Brimstone Creek and an abandoned discontinued incline near the New River. Small coal-mining communities such as Moores Camp, Buffalo, and Fork Mountain are situated along the narrow valley floors.

Genealogists can find several family-named burial grounds like Patterson Cemetery and Reeves-Daugherty Cemetery, often positioned near local landmarks like Beech Grove Church. The terrain is characterized by high ridges and gaps, including Norman Pond Knob and Guinea Gap, which dictated the layout of settlements and transport routes. This 1952 field revision documents the era when mountain resource extraction was transitioning, leaving behind a network of industry-linked sites across the Tennessee Valley region.