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2016 Map of Kountze South

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Kountze South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

Kountze stands at the northern edge of this Hardin County landscape, where the southern reaches of the town give way to the dense, marshy corridors of the Big Thicket National Preserve. The terrain is defined by a complex network of waterways, including Cypress Cr, Village Creek, and Boggy Cr, which weave through low-lying areas like Bear Grass Ridge. The settlement patterns here are a mix of small residential clusters and larger wooded tracts, connected by a web of local roads such as Old Cemetery Rd and Hardin Plant Rd.

The southern portion of the map is dominated by the sprawling protected lands of the preserve, illustrating the transition from the developed outskirts of Kountze and the community of Nona into the primitive wetlands of East Texas. Private airstrips and local landmarks like Hawthorne Field indicate the intersection of rural utility and regional navigation in this heavily forested pocket of the Gulf Coastal Plain.