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1985 Map of Kinston

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Kinston
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1985
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1985

About this map

The Neuse River and Trent River systems anchor this 1985 survey of Eastern North Carolina, documenting a landscape where agricultural traditions meet military and educational growth. Large pocosin wetlands like Big Pocosin and Half Moon Pocosin define the eastern terrain, while the city of Kinston serves as a central hub for the surrounding rural communities of Wheat Swamp, Institute, and Bucklesberry. The era's infrastructure is prominently marked by the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base near Goldsboro and the massive Voice of America Radio Towers situated further east.

Local history is preserved through numerous family-named landmarks and rural institutions, including Wheat Swamp Ch, Albrittons Ch, and the Falling Creek Cem. Traces of an earlier agrarian economy remain visible in the locations of Tulls Mill, Sessoms Mill, and Nobles Mill. Transportation networks are dominated by the Seaboard System Railroad and the Atlantic and East Carolina Railway, which historically linked these tobacco and timber lands to the coastal port at New Bern.