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2022 Map of Hackney

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Hackney
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Chocowinity Bay and its network of inland waterways define this eastern North Carolina landscape, where the Beaufort County and Craven County border meets. The map documents a complex hydraulic environment dominated by large pocosin wetlands, including Reedy Pocosin and Blount Pocosin. These acidic, peat-soil wetlands are intersected by a grid of man-made drainage systems such as Lot Canal, Gum Run Canal, and the extensive Sheppard Run Canal, illustrating a long history of land reclamation efforts for agriculture and timber.

Residential patterns range from the waterfront community at Cypress Landing to smaller rural nodes like McConnell, Rover, and Hackney. Local history is anchored by markers like the Edwards Cem and family-named water features such as Cindy Edwards Br and Brown Br. The topography remains notably low and level, with only slight elevations like Gum Swamp Ridge breaking the vast expanse of swamp and pocosin terrain near the Juniper Swamp headwaters.