1964 Map of Pecan Gap

About this map

The North Sulphur River carves through the landscape of the Texas blackland prairies, defining the borders where Delta, Lamar, Fannin, and Hunt counties meet. This mid-1960s survey reveals a rural society structured around small settlements and family burial grounds, such as Bledsoe Cem and Waller Cem. The town of Pecan Gap serves as a primary hub, while smaller named locales like Ben Franklin and the evocatively named Jot Em Down punctuate the agricultural grid. The drainage patterns of Johns Creek and Doctors Creek illustrate the natural topography before modern large-scale water management changed the region's hydrology. Genealogists will find significant value in the distribution of rural cemeteries like Baptist Hill Cem and Antioch Cem, which often represent the last remaining markers of early community centers like Antioch and Rattan.