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2018 Map of Paden SE

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Paden SE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

Bay Springs Lake dominates this Northeast Mississippi landscape, filling the basin where Mackeys Creek once flowed freely before its impoundment. The map documents the borderlands of Prentiss and Tishomingo Counties, an area where the modern Natchez Trace Pkwy parallels the historic Old Hwy 4 and segments of the older Natchez Trce trail.

Genealogists will find a high density of burial sites across the ridges and peninsulas, ranging from the Old Mackeys Creek Cem and Piney Grove Cem to the isolated Mount Pleasant Cem near Crow Neck Rd. The persistence of these cemeteries, including East Prentiss Cem and Friendship Cem, provides a map of early settlement patterns that endured even as the creation of the reservoir altered the local hydrography and displaced historical homesteads along Wasson Br and Little Brown Cr.