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1950 Map of Munson

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Munson
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1950
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1950

About this map

Munson serves as the central hub of this 1950 survey, located at the intersection of local roads and the edge of the Blackwater River State Forest. The map documents a landscape defined by forestry and small rural communities, where public services like the Munson High School and several lookout towers, including the Munson Lookout Tower and Beaver Creek Lookout Tower, reveal the infrastructure required to manage these extensive timberlands. To the north, the terrain transitions into the Conecuh National Forest at the Alabama state line.

Local history and genealogy are well-represented by the distribution of country churches and family-named landmarks. The drainage network is particularly dense, with Big Coldwater Creek and Big Juniper Creek carving through the terrain alongside numerous named branches. Significant local landmarks such as Sellersville, McLellan, and Belandville provide points of reference for tracing early mid-century settlement patterns and land use in this border region between Florida and Alabama.