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1942 Map of Natalia

Name: 1942 Topographic Map of Natalia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1956
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1956

About this map

The town of Devine serves as a central hub on this map, situated where the International Great Northern Railroad cuts through the South Texas plains. Surveyed in the early 1920s with highway updates from the early 1940s, the landscape reflects a transition toward industrial extraction. Visible oil infrastructure, including a prominent Oil Derrick and various Oil Wells, punctuates the rural landscape alongside established ranching operations like the Sullivan Ranch and Johnson Ranch.

Social and educational life is anchored by local institutions such as the Bear Creek School and Centerville School. Resource management is evident in the Chacon Reservoir and the network of creeks like San Francisco Creek and Fort Ewell Creek that feed the Atascosa River. The presence of the Coal Mine and the Sunken Mine (Abandoned) near the town of Natalia provides a record of earlier mining activity in the region.