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2024 Map of Kitchings Mill

Name: 2024 Topographic Map of Kitchings Mill
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2024
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2024

About this map

The South Fork Edisto River carves through this Aiken County landscape, anchoring a network of wetlands and ponds that define the region's geography. Near the center of the sheet, Kitchings Mill stands as a focal point of local history, surrounded by a rural infrastructure of family and community landmarks. The map reveals a high concentration of sites important for genealogical research, including the Tabernacle Church and its adjacent Tabernacle Graveyard, as well as the Smyrna Church and Smyrna Church Graveyard.

Water management and recreation are evident at Aiken State Park Lake and several named bodies like Tylers Pond, Baughmans Pond, and Goodyear Pond. The terrain is also marked by old travel ways such as Old Tory Trl and Surrey Race Rd, suggesting a landscape shaped by long-standing agrarian and social patterns. At the southeastern edge, the river widens near Sandy Island and Cowford Lake, illustrating the typical bottomland environment of the South Carolina coastal plain.