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1958 Map of Mount Olive

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Mount Olive
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

The Teays Valley floor and the hills of the Kanawha River basin define this West Virginia landscape, spanning the intersection of Mason, Putnam, and Cabell counties. Rural life in the mid-20th century centered on dispersed hilltop settlements and creek-bottom homesteads, connected by routes like Evergreen Road and Stave Branch Road. The mapping reveals a high density of small-scale community infrastructure, including numerous family or church-affiliated burial grounds such as Ball Chapel Cem and the Meadows Cem.

Education and faith were localized along the winding hollows, evidenced by the distribution of one-room or community schoolhouses like Riverview Sch and Red Joe Sch. The settlement at Mount Olive serves as a central landmark amidst a complex drainage network where Eighteenmile Creek and Five and Twenty Mile Creek carve through the plateau. This 1958 survey, photorevised in the 1970s, captures the region before extensive modern development altered these traditional valley communities.