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1984 Map of Kountze SW

Name: 1984 Topographic Map of Kountze SW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1985
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1985

About this map

Big Thicket National Preserve dominates this Hardin County landscape, reflecting the conservation efforts and rural character of Southeast Texas in the mid-1980s. The terrain is defined by a dense network of waterways including Cypress Creek, Flat Cypress Creek, and Steepbank Creek, which carve through the heavily wooded bottomlands.

Evidence of the region's petroleum industry is scattered throughout the quadrangle, with several oil wells indicated alongside an extensive network of pipelines that cut straight paths across the natural drainage basins of Black Creek and Prairie Branch. This survey, compiled from 1970s aerial photography and field-checked in 1977, captures the area during a period of transition as industrial infrastructure integrated with the protected woodlands of the Big Thicket.