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2024 Map of Monticello

Name: 2024 Topographic Map of Monticello
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2024
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2024

About this map

Monticello serves as the focal point of this Lawrence County landscape, situated along the meandering course of the Pearl River. As the county seat, the town is anchored by the Lawrence County Courthouse, with its residential and commercial street grid extending west from the riverbanks. The surrounding terrain is defined by a dense network of tributaries including Halls Creek, Nim Branch, and Coopers Creek, which carve through the wooded lowlands and uplands.

Evidence of early rural settlement and family landholdings is found in the many named roads and small burial sites, such as Wilson Cem and Armstrong Cem. To the northeast, the smaller community of Silver Creek marks a secondary population center. Transportation patterns are dominated by the N A Sandifer Memorial Hwy and Clay Airport, illustrating how modern infrastructure has overlayed the older agricultural routes like Old St Stephens Rd and Ferguson Mill Rd.