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2019 Map of Mineola

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Mineola
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Mineola serves as the primary hub in this Wood County landscape, where the intersection of major roads and local streets meets the northern reaches of the Sabine River basin. The geography is defined by a dense network of water bodies and seasonal drainages, including Lake Fork Cr and Rock Falls Cr, which feed into various named reservoirs like Woodvale Lake and Beckham Lake. These waters have historically shaped the local economy and land use, from small-scale ranching at Rhodes Ranch Airport to the development of the Wood County Airport in the northwest.

Genealogists will find a high concentration of burial grounds distributed across the countryside, such as Concord Cem, Dumas Cem, and the Roselawn Memorial Cem. These sites, along with small communities like New Hope and Hoard, preserve the late-20th and early-21st-century footprint of rural East Texas. The terrain is further marked by named rises like Rose Hill, illustrating the subtle topographic shifts that characterize this region's creek-split plains.