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1962 Map of Pettibone

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Pettibone
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1989
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1989

About this map

The Little River and San Gabriel River converge in this central Texas landscape, creating a complex network of wetlands and oxbows including Ackerman Slough and Wolf Spring Slough. The agricultural character of the era is defined by the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, which cuts a straight line across the northern half of the territory, serving the namesake community of Pettibone.

Family history is preserved through several small burial grounds and rural institutions, such as Hall Cem, Dockery Cem, and the Hall Sch. The infrastructure of the early 1960s is evident in the numerous river crossings, specifically the Holtzclaw Bridge and Norman Valley Bridge, which provided essential transit for farmers moving between the bottomlands and the upland prairies near Buckholts and Salem.