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1981 Map of New London

Name: 1981 Topographic Map of New London
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

New London and its surrounding creek-laced bottomlands define this portion of Union County during the late 1970s. The landscape is a complex intersection of petroleum extraction and conservation, with the Winchester Oil Field and New London Oil Field operating adjacent to the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge. Numerous dispersed Oil Wells dot the terrain, which is drained by a dense network of waterways including Caney Bayou, Lapoile Creek, and Horsehead Creek.

Evidence of historical industry and local community life is preserved through features like McLendon Mill and the Old Railroad Grade cutting across the northern reaches. Genealogists will find significant value in the mapped locations of family and church burial grounds, such as Wallace Cem, Ebenezer Ch Cem, and Norris Cem. The settlement pattern is rooted in small congregations, notably Union Chapel and Gethsemane Chapel, which anchor the rural landscape south of the New London Lookout Tower.