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1963 Map of Gholson

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Gholson
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

The ridge-and-hollow landscape of the Noxubee Co Kemper Co border region is defined here by several prominent peaks, including Gholson Mountain, Hit Mountain, and White House Mountain. In the early 1960s, the rural community of Gholson stood as a central point in this network of timbered hills and creeks. The map provides significant detail for local historians, documenting the location of Poorhouse Mountain and its associated Poorhouse Spring and Poorhouse Cem. These labels indicate a historical social infrastructure that had become part of the local geography.

Transportation and resource extraction are visible through the Old Railroad Grade cutting across the northeast and a lone Oil Well in the southwest near Running Tiger Creek. Numerous small burial grounds and country churches, such as Friendship Ch and Cotton Cem, are scattered throughout the drainage basins of Running Water Creek and Wahalak Creek, offering a precise view of the mid-century settlement pattern before modern development altered these rural corridors.