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2022 Map of Kosse East

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Kosse East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

The town of Kosse anchors the western edge of this East Texas landscape, where the agricultural plains meet a dense network of creek drainages. Numerous family and community burial grounds, such as Eutaw Cem and Sowders Cem, are scattered across the terrain, reflecting the deep-rooted rural settlement patterns of Limestone County. The land is defined by winding watercourses like Steele Cr and Polecat Cr, which carved the undulating topography long before the modern road grid of County Roads and Limestone County Routes was established.

Water management is evident at Knox Lake in the north, while the southern reaches near the Robertson County line remain largely defined by open land and seasonal streams like Duck Cr. For those tracing local genealogy, the distribution of sites like Shady Grove Cem and Buttrill Cem provides a clear spatial record of early rural congregations and homesteads that remain central to the region's identity.