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2022 Map of Obey City

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Obey City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Obey City and its surrounding Highland Rim settlements are depicted here as they sit along the divide between the Overton and Putnam county line. This region of the Cumberland Plateau is defined by a dense network of family cemeteries and small rural centers like Hanging Limb, Cliff Springs, and Green Pond. The map reveals a landscape heavily shaped by its complex topography, where narrow ridges like Laboring Backbone and the Steel Tram Ridge dictate the placement of mountain lanes and homesteads.

Tracing the headwaters of the West Fork Obey River and its numerous branches, such as Sunk Cane Branch and Mineral Springs Branch, the survey provides a detailed look at the rural infrastructure of the early 2020s. From the older burial grounds like Union Point Cemetery and France Cemetery to the named hollows like Johnson Hollow and Flat House Hollow, the map preserves the local nomenclature of this pocket of Middle Tennessee.