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2015 Map of Gallman

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Gallman
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Gallman and the northern outskirts of Hazlehurst anchor this portion of Copiah County, where the landscape is defined by the drainage basins of Copiah Cr and Bayou Pierre. The area is notably dense with small family and community burial grounds, including the Wiltshire-King Cem near Lake Copiah and the Clear Springs Cem south of Byrdtown Rd. These sites, along with others like Pisgah Cem and Deaton Cem, point to a long-established rural settlement pattern that persists alongside modern transit corridors.

Water plays a central role in the topography, with numerous named branches such as Finley Br, Hurricane Cr, and Latimore Br feeding into larger systems. The presence of Tillman further south illustrates the network of small crossroads that historically served this agricultural region. Public and private land divisions are marked by the intersection of townships t2n r3w and t1n r2w, showing the underlying survey structure that has organized this Mississippi territory for generations.