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1955 Map of Fort Benning

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Fort Benning
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1993
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1993

About this map

Fort Benning dominates this mid-century landscape along the Chattahoochee River, serving as a critical military hub during the post-war era. The survey captures a complex infrastructure of defense and logistics, including the Lawson Field aviation facilities, a control tower, and the armory. A network of hills and ridges, many bearing surnames like Woodward Hill and Lambert Hill, overlooks the tactical terrain of the Fort Benning Military Reservation.

Southward, the character of the land shifts toward the riverbank, where Cody Landing and Bon Acre Landing mark the transition to the rising waters of the Walter F George Reservoir. Tributaries like Oswichee Creek and Thagee Creek snake through the borderlands between Georgia and Alabama. Local education and community life are represented by Faith Sch, providing a rare glimpse into the civilian-military interface of the 1950s army post.