1983 Map of Long Branch

About this map

Pinehill and Long Branch serve as the primary hubs in this rural East Texas landscape, situated along the county line where Rusk Co and Panola Co meet. The area is defined by a dense network of watercourses, including the wide sweep of Murvaul Bayou and the western edge of Lake Murvaul. Notable landmarks like Greens Mountain and Hog Mountain provide vertical contrast to the winding creek bottoms of Glade Creek and Irons Bayou. This early 1980s provisional map details a landscape of scattered rural residences and family-named water features such as Hord Slough, Osburn Branch, and Hainty Bayou. Small clearings and a local Cem reflect the region's agricultural and timber-based settlement patterns, while the Indefinite Boundary suggests the complexities of historic land surveying in these wooded creek bottoms.