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1964 Map of Pearsons Chapel

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Pearsons Chapel
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

Pearsons Chapel serves as the central point of this mid-1960s landscape, where small rural settlements and religious sites anchor the local geography. The area is defined by a dense network of watercourses, including the westward-flowing Big Creek and the meandering Georgia Camp Creek, which passes by the Georgia Camp Ch and its associated settlement. These labels suggest a community long tied to the creek basins, with further evidence of family lineage found at the Bynum Cem and the Cooper Ch near the northern boundary.

Industrial activity appears in the form of early resource extraction, with scattered Oil Wells, a Gas Well, and a Gravel Pit positioned near Hales Gully. These features, alongside a prominent Radio Tower and a utility pipeline corridor, indicate a transition from traditional subsistence farming to a more modern infrastructure during this era. The terrain remains varied, with significant woodland cover and drainage channels like Tantabogue Creek and Lost Creek carving through the Houston County countryside.