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2018 Map of Lafayette

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Lafayette
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

The Chambers County seat of La Fayette serves as the focal point for this 2018 survey, showing the city's residential and commercial grid at the southern end of the quadrangle. As the intersection for several regional routes including AL Highway 77, the area maintains a network of rural settlements like Buffalo, Rollins, and Chapel Hill. For genealogists, the map is particularly rich in family and community burial grounds, documenting locations such as Old Rock Springs Cem, Poplar Springs Cem, and the Hill-Thompson Cem near the northern boundary.

Water systems define the landscape outside the developed areas, with the Lafayette Reservoir and W C Hines Lake providing critical local resources. The surrounding topography is carved by numerous small waterways, including Chatahospee Cr and Finley Cr, which wind through the township divisions of t23n r26e and t22n r26e. The map also captures several smaller bodies of water such as Sharpes Lake and Wheeler Lake, illustrating the drainage patterns that have shaped land use in this part of eastern Alabama.