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2014 Map of Langston

Name: 2014 Topographic Map of Langston
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2014
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2014

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Guntersville Lake and the winding Tennessee River dominate this modern landscape, where the waters surround prominent features like Goose Pond Island and the elevated terrain of Backbone Ridge. To the north, the city of Scottsboro expands toward the shoreline, while smaller residential developments such as Lakeview Shores, New Hope, and Skyline Shores dot the waterfront.

Genealogists will find a high density of family-named burial grounds across the region, including Vaught Cem near Langston and Guffy Cem tucked into the hollow of Dry Cove. The topography is defined by the sharp rise of Sand Mountain to the east and Gunters Mtn to the west. This geography creates natural bottlenecks like Langston Gap, which historically influenced local transport routes before the modern connectivity provided by Al-79 and Us-72.