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2010 Map of Petroleum

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Petroleum
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

Scottsville serves as the primary hub in this southern Kentucky landscape, where a dense network of country roads connects family-named landmarks and rural burial grounds. The terrain is deeply etched by a complex drainage system including Trammel Creek and its many tributaries, which carve through the land to form distinct topographies like Wagoner Hollow and Cider Press Hollow. These geographic features often dictated the placement of local thoroughfares and early homesteads.

Local history and genealogy researchers can locate several significant interment sites, such as the Nancy Cemetery, Wolf Cemetery, and the Old Carter Cemetery. The map documents a rural economy still defined by its waterways, with Rough Creek, Snake Creek, and West Bays Fork winding through the countryside. This survey captures the transition between the established town center and the surrounding agricultural valleys at the start of the 2010s.