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2019 Map of Jacks Creek

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Jacks Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Henderson serves as the western anchor of this West Tennessee landscape, where the South Fork Forked Deer River winds through low-lying wetlands. The topography is defined by numerous small watercourses like Jacks Creek and Sweet Lips Creek, which separate small agricultural communities and family homesteads. The rural character of Chester County is evident in the dense distribution of family-named burial grounds, including the Massengill Cemetery and Sweetlips Cemetery, which offer valuable geographic markers for genealogical research.

Small settlements like Jacks Creek and Sweet Lips are connected by a network of local roads such as Enville Road and Sweet Lips Road. Near the southern border with McNairy County, Morris Lake and the Tar Creek bottomlands indicate a terrain still heavily influenced by natural drainage patterns. The map detail highlights how historical land use in this region remained tied to the drainages of the Clarks Creek and Sugar Creek systems into the 21st century.