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1931 Map of Iola

Name: 1931 Topographic Map of Iola
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

The Navasota River forms a complex boundary between Madison, Brazos, Leon, and Robertson Counties, defining a landscape of oxbow lakes and bottomlands. Surveyed in the 1920s, this map reveals a rural topography where community life centered on landmarks like Plain View Ch and nearby Plain View Sch. The scattered distribution of farmsteads and small rural hubs like Burns Store reflects an era before extensive highway development, where local commerce and education were anchored to specific family-named landmarks and creek drainages.

Genealogists can trace burial sites at Keefer Cem and Nash Cem, or locate the Bundy Sch tucked along the lower drainage of Long Hollow. The river corridor itself is marked by numerous named water bodies, including Carr Lake, Donahoe L, and San Antonio L, illustrating the hydrological character of the region before modern river management altered these seasonal basins. Large swaths of the southern portion remained an Unsurveyed Area at the time of this survey, highlighting the frontier character of the Texas interior during the early twentieth century.