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1940 Map of Jones Cove

Name: 1940 Topographic Map of Jones Cove
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

Jones Cove serves as a central point in this landscape of ridges and creek bottoms, where the boundary between Sevier and Cocke counties follows the high ground of Rich Mountain. This 1940 field survey, later photorevised in the 1970s, captures a network of rural communities defined by small family cemeteries and country churches. Deeply carved hollows like Stillhouse Hollow and Spurgeon Hollow feed into larger drainages such as Dunn Creek and Yellow Breeches Creek, illustrating the traditional Appalachian settlement pattern where homes and roads clung to the valley floors.

The southern portion of the sheet is dominated by the northern reaches of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where the terrain ascends toward Webb Mountain. Notable landmarks including the Ringen Memorial Ch and Bradley Chapel anchor the local geography. The presence of a Golf Course and Trailer Park near Webb Creek reflects the early modern shift toward recreation and tourism at the doorstep of the national park, contrasting with the older, family-named landmarks like Hurst Cemetery and Williams Cemetery.