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2016 Map of Harris Chapel

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Harris Chapel
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

The Sabine River carves a serpentine northern boundary through this East Texas landscape, where the borders of Harrison, Panola, and Rusk counties converge. The terrain is defined by a complex network of wetlands and seasonal watercourses, including Cypress Slough, Gandia Slough, and Black Slough. These bottomlands are dotted with numerous small lakes such as Hendricks Lakes and Redman Lakes, which likely served as significant local landmarks and resources for the surrounding communities.

Settlement patterns are centered around the town of Beckville in the south and the rural community of Harris Chapel further north. For those tracing local family histories, several burial grounds are preserved on this map, including Watson Cem, Williams Cem, and Conner Cem. A dense network of local routes like FM 1794 and Hendricks Lake Rd connects these points of interest across the creek-fed topography of Tatum Cr and Mulberry Cr.