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1963 Map of Mount Olive

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Mount Olive
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1965
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1965

About this map

The Navidad River and Lavaca River dominate this Jackson County landscape, their winding courses carving through a region defined by mid-century energy extraction and rural family heritage. The area is heavily marked by the Morales Gas Field and Cordele Oil Field, where a dense network of pipelines, oil wells, and gas wells punctuates the terrain between the river bottoms.

For family historians, this 1963 survey is a vital record of numerous small burial grounds that reflect the area's early settlement patterns. Scattered across the quadrangle are sites like Mount Olive Cem, Strane Cem, St Andrews Cem, and Burnettville Cem. Transportation in this era relied on a grid of local routes such as Budd Road, Asbeck Road, and Bacon Town Road, connecting the tiny community of Mount Olive to the surrounding oil fields and river pastures.