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2011 Map of Lyons

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Lyons
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

The town of Lyons serves as the focal point of this Toombs County landscape, showing a structured grid of streets anchored by the Lyons Post Office. To the southwest, the uniquely named settlement of Santa Claus appears along the highway corridor, while the outlier community of Ponderosa sits to the east. The terrain is defined by a dendritic network of waterways, including Swift Creek and Little Rocky Creek, which drain toward the larger Pendleton Creek basin.

Genealogists will find several family and community burial sites scattered across the rural landscape, such as Pea Ridge Cemetery, Wilks Cemetery, and Hillsboro Cemetery. The infrastructure of the early 21st century is evident through the presence of the Vidalia Municipal Airport on the western edge and the Toombs County Lookout Tower to the south. Managed water features like Resmondo Lake and the Resmondo Lake Dam indicate the local management of the creek systems for recreation or agriculture.