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2011 Map of Newell

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Newell
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

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Cairo and the surrounding Union County landscape are defined by a long-standing intersection of timber and petroleum production. Several extensive drilling operations, including the Cairo Oil and Gas Field and the East Shuler Oil and Gas Field, occupy the creek-fed lowlands between Beech Creek and Curtis Creek. The settlement pattern is largely rural, anchored by numerous family-named landmarks and communal burial grounds such as Mount Zion Cemetery and Goodwin Cemetery.

A network of local roads like Manningville Rd and Mount Willie Rd connects the small hubs of Trull and Griffin to the broader region. The hydrology is dominated by slow-moving waterways such as Little Cornie Bayou and Dry Creek, which carve through the wooded terrain. These features, along with the Goodwin Field airport, illustrate a landscape evolved to support the extraction and transport of local natural resources in the early twenty-first century.