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2015 Map of Marblehead

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Marblehead
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

The Mississippi River bottomlands and the rising bluffs of Adams County define this landscape near the Illinois-Missouri border. The complex river environment is marked by numerous islands and side channels, including Whitney Island, McDonald Island, and McDonald Chute. Inland from the river, the landscape transitions into a series of creek basins and settling areas like the Austin Creek Settling Basin and Fall Creek Settling Basin, which reflect local water management efforts on the floodplains.

Settlement patterns are anchored by the community of Payson to the east and smaller locales such as Marblehead and Seehorn. For genealogists, the map is particularly detailed, showing numerous burial sites including Craigtown Cem, Bluff Hall Cem, and the Newmaw Family Cem. The varied topography from Distillery Hollow to the wetlands of The Sny illustrates the geography of the river valley before further modernization changed these drainage patterns.