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2019 Map of Giddings

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Giddings
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Giddings serves as the focal point of this Lee County landscape, showing a detailed street grid where various highways and rail corridors converge. The town's layout is characterized by its residential and commercial blocks, surrounded by a network of rural roads such as Manheim Rd and PR 4482. To the southwest, the community of Serbin remains a significant marker of local heritage, while the presence of several family and community burial sites, including Noack Cem, Keng Cem, and Betts Chapel Cem, provides essential points of reference for genealogical research.

The surrounding countryside is defined by a complex drainage system featuring Nails Cr and Rabbs Cr, alongside numerous private lakes and reservoirs like Walter Droemer Lake and Mantzel Lake. The Giddings Lee County Airport north of the city center highlights the modern infrastructure supporting the region. This survey captures the transition from the concentrated urban core of Giddings to the sprawling agricultural tracts and creek bottoms that define this portion of the Texas Post Oak Savannah.