
Lake Jacksonville dominates the central landscape of this Cherokee County study, its fingers reaching into the valleys of Gum Creek and Sixmile Creek. The western edge of Jacksonville appears on the eastern margin, showing a dense residential grid and institutional centers like Jacksonville College and the Baptist Missionary Theological Seminary. The map is particularly valuable for genealogists, detailing numerous rural burial grounds such as Earles Chapel Cem and Gossetts Chapel Cem, alongside smaller settlements like Hume and Ironton. Rising above the surrounding creeks, Luker Mtn and Casey Mtn define the local topography, while numerous county roads like Co RD 3212 and Co RD 3114 weave together the area's family farms and historic homesteads.
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1937 · Troupe
USGS Topo · 1:48,000
1943 · Troup
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1943 · Rusk
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1945 · Rusk
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1946 · Bullard
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1948 · Bullard
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1951 · Jacksonville
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1953 · Palestine
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1956 · Tyler
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1957 · Palestine
USGS Topo · 1:250,000