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1965 Map of New Hope

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of New Hope
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

The New Hope Oil Field dominates this mid-1960s landscape, illustrating the industrial footprint of petroleum extraction in East Texas. The infrastructure of the era is clearly marked, featuring a refinery, pumping stations, and a network of pipelines that cut across the local topography. This industrial activity exists alongside established rural communities, where social life centered on locations like Macon Ch and the South Franklin CSD No 28 Sch.

Waterways like Big Cypress Creek and Stouts Creek dictate the settlement patterns of small clusters such as Majors and Hopewell. For genealogists, the map is a detailed record of local burial grounds, including Snodgrass Cem and Bethel Cem, as well as the worker-oriented housing at Tidewater Camp. The confluence of agrarian tradition and the 20th-century oil boom is preserved here in precise detail.