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1959 Map of Greenwood

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Greenwood
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

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Bessemer Airport and the expanding residential corridors of Raimund and Eastern Valley anchor the northern reaches of this mid-century landscape. The terrain is defined by the prominent northeast-southwest ridges of Shades Mountain and Chestnut Ridge, which dictate the paths of the Southern and Seaboard Coast Line railroads. These industrial arteries once supported local resource extraction, evidenced by the Chert Pit and scattered mines located near Sparks Gap.

Community life centers on a network of rural institutions like Hopewell Sch, Taceys Chapel, and the Junior High Sch near Greenwood. The survey documents the area's transition as purple revisions mark the growth of suburban estates like Phillips Estates and Hillview alongside older agricultural settlements. To the south, the landscape remains more open as Shades Creek flows toward its confluence with the Cahaba River near Mossboro.