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1971 Map of Little Mountain

Name: 1971 Topographic Map of Little Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

Little Mountain rises as a prominent landmark in this 1971 survey of the Piedmont, where the boundary between Newberry Co and Lexington Co winds through a landscape of creek valleys and small rural hubs. The southern portion of the map is defined by the irregular northern fingers of Lake Murray, showing the inundated shoreline around Fairview and the mouth of Buffalo Creek. This era of the landscape is characterized by a network of established country churches, such as St Peters Ch and Mt Tabor Ch, which served the scattered farming communities of Wheeland and Kibler.

Transportation corridors like the Southern railroad and the Columbia and Newberry highway cut across the terrain, linking the settlement of Slighs to the wider region. In addition to the residential clusters, the map records the local economy through features like the Claypit and the presence of Radio Towers atop the mountain itself, providing a detailed record of land use before further modern expansion.