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1963 Map of Learned

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Learned
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

The Illinois Central railroad cuts through this Hinds County landscape, connecting the small settlement of Learned to the surrounding agricultural countryside in the early 1960s. The area is defined by a dense network of country churches and family-named landmarks, such as Reeves Chapel, Oak Grove Ch, and New Salem Ch. Significant land use is evident at the Oakley Training School and the Brown Loam Branch Experiment Station, while the Natchez Trace Parkway provides a modern transit corridor alongside older local routes.

Waterways like Fourteenmile Creek and Tallahalla Creek carve through the terrain, which rises to heights like Green Hill. For genealogists and local historians, the map preserves the locations of numerous small burial grounds, including Auburn Cem, Nalley Cem, and Morrison Cem, providing a detailed record of the rural community's social geography before late-century development altered the landscape.