1975 Map of Montevallo NE

About this map

Alabaster serves as the northern anchor for this orthophotoquad, showing the city's residential and industrial footprint during the mid-1970s. This aerial imagery provides a direct look at the cleared landscapes and development patterns along the central corridor, where the town of Saginaw is situated amidst a mix of forested tracts and active resource extraction sites. The visual data captured by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service reveals the practical geography of the region, from the cluster of buildings at Dogwood to the large-scale land disturbances that characterize the local industry of the era. This perspective is particularly useful for understanding how the highway and rail networks influenced the expansion of these Shelby County communities before modern suburban sprawl reshaped the terrain.