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2016 Map of Horse Shoe

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

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

The French Broad River carves a distinctive path through this Henderson County landscape, notably creating the namesake Horse Shoe Bend near the settlement of Horse Shoe. This 2016 survey documents a region defined by its transition from the peaks of the Pisgah National Forest and Forge Mtn to the more developed suburban corridors of Hendersonville and Mills River. Local history is deeply embedded in the terrain, with numerous family-named landmarks and historical sites like Patterson Cem, McCarson Cem, and the Tobacco Barn Field near Corn Mtn.

The map reveals a complex network of residential developments such as Camelot, Rugby, and Sky Village that have expanded alongside older landmarks like Bowman Bluff. Water remains a central feature of the landscape, from the large Banks Brothers Lake and Mountain Lake to the various branches of Big Willow Cr and Boylston Cr. For genealogists, the density of small family burial grounds including Justus Cem and the Old Beulah Cem provides a detailed record of the area's ancestral settlement patterns.