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1985 Map of Mexia

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Mexia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1992
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1992

About this map

Mexia State School and the ruins at Fort Parker anchor this mid-1980s landscape across Limestone, Navarro, and Freestone counties. The region is defined by its transition from prairie to river bottom, where the Navasota River and Richland Creek carve through the terrain. Evidence of the early 20th-century educational landscape remains through Westminster College at Tehuacana, a hilltop settlement overlooking the surrounding plains.

Transport networks are heavily represented by the Burlington Northern RR and Missouri Pacific RR, alongside a curious Old Rk Grade south of Hubbard. Large water projects like Navarro Mills Lake and Fairfield Lake show the mid-century engineering that reshaped the local environment, while numerous local burial grounds such as Winkler Cem and Personville Cem provide essential data points for tracing family histories in the rural townships of Frosa, Echols, and Munger.