2019 Map of Gum Springs

About this map

Pleasant Grove and McKnight anchor a landscape defined by the drainage basins of the Piney Woods, where numerous small creeks like Johnson Cr and Striker Cr carve through the East Texas terrain. This rural Rusk County landscape is notably dense with family and community burial grounds, including the Boatright Cem, Waggoner Cem, and Moyers Cem, offering significant value for genealogical research. The mapping reveals a transition in land use, where managed water bodies such as Ashby Lake and County Lake dot the countryside alongside traditional agricultural tracts. A complex network of county roads and farm-to-market routes like FM 1798 W and FM 839 connects the small settlements of Pone and Pleasant Grove, tracing the historical movement patterns through the area's timber and farmland before reaching the Cherokee County line.