1978 Map of Jay

About this map

The Oil Field dominates the landscape around Jay and its surrounding communities during the late 1970s and early 1980s. This industrial layer is superimposed over a network of traditional rural settlements like Brownsdale and Cobbtown. To the west, the Escambia River and its convoluted system of oxbows, including Government Dead Lake and Ashton Dead River, define the boundary between Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. The presence of numerous wells, tanks, and pipelines interspersed with local landmarks like Concord Ch and Pine Level Ch reveals the era's economic transition, where energy extraction met established agricultural life. Further north, the Conecuh River flows toward the state line, carving through terrain marked by family-named features like Hutson Pond and Malloy Branch.