The Union County seat of Morganfield serves as the central hub for this early 21st-century landscape, where a dense grid of residential streets gives way to a network of rural roads named for established local families. The surrounding countryside is defined by several prominent upland features, including the Chalybeate Hills, Dyer Hills, and Sulphur Spring Hills, which rise above the low-lying Cypress Flats to the west. Genealogists will find this sheet particularly valuable for its density of family-named burial grounds. Significant sites such as the Waller Cemetery, Givens Cemetery, and Chatman Cemetery are preserved in the rural sections, often situated near the headwaters of local drainages like Clements Branch and Eagle Creek. The presence of small settlements like Hamner and Harding along the secondary road network illustrates the persistent rural settlement patterns that have shaped this Kentucky interior for generations.
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1905 · New Haven
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1906 · New Haven
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1907 · Morganfield
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1916 · Shawneetown
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1917 · Uniontown
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1949 · Paducah
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1949 · New Haven
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1949 · Morganfield
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1950 · Paducah
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1951 · Waverly
USGS Topo · 1:24,000