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1972 Map of Lake Marvin

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Lake Marvin
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

The Canadian River floodplains and the high Texas Panhandle plains meet in this survey of Hemphill County. The landscape is defined by the hydrologic network of Persimmon Creek and Boggy Creek, which feed into local water bodies such as Lake Marvin and Lake Kiowa. The presence of a Campground and the Gene Howe Wildlife Management Area indicates a region utilized for conservation and recreation during the early 1970s.

Subterranean resource extraction is evidenced by numerous scattered Oil Wells, Gas Wells, and Drill Holes, showing the industrial footprint on the prairie. For genealogists and local historians, specific points of interest include an isolated Grave along Persimmon Creek and a separate cluster of Graves near the eastern bank of Boggy Creek, offering small but significant clues to the human history of this rural Panhandle landscape.