2019 Map of Ivor

About this map

Wakefield and Ivor anchor this 2019 survey of the Virginia Tidewater region, where the landscape is defined by an intricate network of wetlands and drainage basins. The area serves as a meeting point for Sussex Co, Surry Co, and Southampton Co, with the prominent thoroughfare of General Mahone Blvd cutting diagonally across the terrain. Small rural junctions like Saddlers Crossroads, Booth Fork, and Goodrich Fork mark the upland spaces between vast hydrologic features such as Terrapin Swamp and Seacock Swamp. Local history is preserved at Booker T Memorial Park and within several family-named burial grounds including Stephenson Cem and the Ivor Cem. Modern transportation infrastructure, including the Wakefield Municipal Airport and the Norfolk Southern railroad line, parallels older drainage patterns, illustrating the region's enduring reliance on these corridors for connectivity through the swampy lowlands of Southside Virginia.